Jean Rhys at "World's End" : : Novels of Colonial and Sexual Exile / / Mary Lou Emery.
The Caribbean Islands have long been an uneasy meeting place among indigenous peoples, white European colonists, and black slave populations. Tense oppositions in Caribbean culture—colonial vs. native, white vs. black, male conqueror vs. female subject—supply powerful themes and spark complex narrat...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Content
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One Masquerades
- 1. Modernist Crosscurrents
- 2. Countertexts, Countercommunities
- Part Two. Marooned
- 3. Wide Sargasso Sea: Obeah Nights
- 4. Voyage in the Dark: Carnival/Consciousness
- Part Three. Other Women
- 5. Voyage in the Dark: The Other Great War
- 6. Quartet: "Postures," Possession, and Point of View
- 7. After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie: Repetition and Counterromance
- 8. Good Morning, Midnight: The Paris Exhibition and the Paradox of Style
- Conclusion: "World's End and a Beginning"
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index