Jean Rhys at "World's End": Novels of Colonial and Sexual Exile
Autor Mary Lou Emeryen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 aug 2011
Emery considers all five Rhys novels, beginning with Wide Sargasso Sea as the most explicitly Caribbean in its setting, in its participation in the culminating decades of a West Indian literary naissance, and most importantly, in its subversive transformation of European concepts of character. From a sociocultural perspective, she argues persuasively that the earlier novels—Voyage in the Dark, Quartet, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie, and Good Morning, Midnight—should be read as emergent Caribbean fiction, written in tense dialogue with European modernism. Building on this thesis, she reveals how the apparent passivity, masochism, or silence of Rhys's female protagonists results from their doubly marginalized status as women and as subject peoples. Also, she explores how Rhys's women seek out alternative identities in dreamed of, magically realized, or chosen communities.
These discoveries offer important insights on literary modernism, Caribbean fiction, and the formation of female identity.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292735651
ISBN-10: 0292735650
Pagini: 235
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 0292735650
Pagini: 235
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Notă biografică
Mary Lou Emery is Professor of English at the University of Iowa.
Cuprins
- 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
Descriere
In this pathfinding study, Mary Lou Emery focuses on Rhys’s handling of tense oppositions, using a Caribbean cultural perspective to replace the mainly European aesthetic, moral, and psychological standards that have served to misread and sometimes devalu