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 affect. Jean 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 pa...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Johnson, Erica L., 1970- (Editor), Moran, Patricia (Patricia L.) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Rhys, Jean > Criticism and interpretation.
Rhys, Jean
Rhys, Jean > 1890-1979
LITERARY CRITICISM > Feminist.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the haunting of Jean Rhys / Erica L. Johnson and Patricia Moran
  • Part I. Rhys and modernist aesthetics. Jean Rhys and Katherine Mansfield writing the 'sixth act' / Sue Thomas
  • Making a scene : Rhys and the Aesthete at mid-century / Rishona Zimring
  • On the veranda : Jean Rhys's material modernism / Mary Lou Emery
  • Part II. Postcolonial Rhys. Jean Rhys's environmental language : oppositions, dialogues and silences / Elaine Savory
  • Caribbean formations in the Rhysian corpus / Carine M. Mardorossian
  • 'From black to red' : Jean Rhys's use of dress in Wide Sargasso Sea / Maroula Joannou
  • The discourses of Jean Rhys : resistance, ambivalence and Creole indeterminacy / H. Adlai Murdoch
  • Part III. Affective Rhys. The empire of affect : reading Rhys after postcolonial theory / John J. Su
  • 'The feelings are always mine' : chronic shame and humiliated rage in Jean Rhys's fiction / Patricia Moran
  • 'Upholstered ghosts' : Jean Rhys's posthuman imaginary / Erica L. Johnson.

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