Jean Rhys: Twenty-First-Century Approaches

ISBN-13: 9781474402194 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 256 str.

Erica Johnson; Patricia Moran

Opis

The 10 newly commissioned essays and introduction collected in this volume demonstrate Jean Rhys's centrality to modernism and to postcolonial literature alike by addressing her stories and novels from the 1920s and 1930s.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; List of Figures; Introduction, Patricia Moran and Erica L. Johnson; I. Rhys and Modernist Aesthetics; 1. Sue Thomas (LaTrobe University), ‘Jean Rhys and Katherine Mansfield Writing the “Sixth Act”’; 2. Rishona Zimring (Lewis and Clark College), ‘Making a Scene: Rhys and the Aesthete at Mid-Century’; 3. Mary Lou Emery (University of Iowa), ‘On the Veranda: Jean Rhys’s Material Modernism’; II. Postcolonial Rhys; 4. Elaine Savory (The New School), ‘Rhys’s Fictional Environment: A Postcolonial Ecocritical Reading’; 5. Carine Mardorossian (SUNY Buffalo), ‘Caribbean Formations in the Rhysian Corpus’; 6. Maroula Joannou (Anglia Ruskin University), ‘”From Black to Red”: Jean Rhys’s Use of Dress in Wide Sargasso Sea’; 7. H. Adlai Murdoch (Tufts University), ‘The Discourses of Jean Rhys: Creole Indeterminacy, Radical Ambivalence and Postcolonial Resistance’; III. Affective Rhys; 8. John J. Su (Marquette University), ‘The Empire of Affect: Reading Rhys after Postcolonial Studies’; 9. Patricia Moran (University of Limerick), ‘”the feelings are always mine”: Chronic Shame and Humiliated Rage in Jean Rhys’s Fiction’; 10. Erica L. Johnson (Pace University), ‘”Upholstered Ghosts”: Jean Rhys’s Posthuman Imaginary’; Bibliography