Review of Rodriguez Salas' Katherine Mansfield: El Posmodernismo incipiente de una modernista renegada

Abstract

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) is considered one of the best and most representative British writers of short fiction. Historically speaking, it is acknowledged that she belonged to the modernist era, and, consequently, to my knowledge, every study that has been published on her work has been carried out from a modernist approach. Gerardo Rodríguez Salas is the first scholar to develop a monographic study in which Mansfield is analyzed from a new perspective; he claims that Mansfield is a modernist writer who anticipated the postmodernist movement. This he does on the strength of certain features that prominently belong to this later literary period.