Jean Rhys : : Twenty-First-Century Approaches /

Jean Rhys : : Twenty-First-Century Approaches / / Erica Johnson, Patricia Moran.

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Presents new critical perspectives on Jean Rhys in relation to modernism, postcolonialism, and theories of affectJean Rhys (1890-1979) is the author of five novels and over seventy short stories. She has played a major figure in debates attempting to establish the parameters of postcolonial and part...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
VerfasserIn:
Johnson, Erica,
Moran, Patricia,
MitwirkendeR:
Emery, Mary Lou,
Johnson, Erica L.,
Mardorossian, Carine M.,
Moran, Patricia,
Murdoch, H. Adlai,
Savory, Elaine,
Sea, Sargasso,
Su, John J.,
Thomas, Sue,
Zimring, Rishona,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2015
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 8 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: The Haunting of Jean Rhys
  • PART I Rhys and Modernist Aesthetics
  • 1. Jean Rhys and Katherine Mansfield Writing the 'sixth act'
  • 2. Making a Scene: Rhys and the Aesthete at Mid-Century
  • 3. On the Veranda: Jean Rhys's Material Modernism
  • PART II Postcolonial Rhys
  • 4. Jean Rhys's Environmental Language: Oppositions, Dialogues and Silences
  • 5. Caribbean Formations in the Rhysian Corpus
  • 6. 'From Black to Red': Jean Rhys's Use of Dress in Wide
  • 7. The Discourses of Jean Rhys: Resistance, Ambivalence and Creole Indeterminacy
  • PART III Affective Rhys
  • 8. The Empire of Affect: Reading Rhys after Postcolonial Theory
  • 9. 'The feelings are always mine': Chronic Shame and Humiliated Rage in Jean Rhys's Fiction
  • 10. 'Upholstered Ghosts': Jean Rhys's Posthuman Imaginary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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