Jean Rhys : Twenty-First-Century Approaches /

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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Johnson, Erica (Autor), Moran, Patricia (Autor, Contribuidor)
Otros Autores: Emery, Mary Lou (Contribuidor), Johnson, Erica L. (Contribuidor), Mardorossian, Carine M. (Contribuidor), Murdoch, H. Adlai (Contribuidor), Savory, Elaine (Contribuidor), Sea, Sargasso (Contribuidor), Su, John J. (Contribuidor), Thomas, Sue (Contribuidor), Zimring, Rishona (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Literary Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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