Wide Sargasso Sea at 50

ISBN-13: 9783030282257 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 274 str.

Recenzje

"The enduring power and influence of Wide Sargasso Sea is admirably served by this collection of essays ... . The volume is the first to be devoted entirely to Rhys's most famous text and will become essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the enduring appeal of the novel. ... Overall, this is an impressive collection, thoughtfully assembled. It admirably testifies to the richness of Rhys's vision in Wide Sargasso Sea, her "right-handed" marriage to Jane Eyre." (Andrew Thacker, New West Indian Guide, Vol. 96 (3-4), September, 2022)

Spis treści

1         Introduction to Wide Sargasso Sea at 50  

 

       Part I Inspirations and Influences  

 

2         Interview with Caryl Phillips 

 

3         Interview with Chrisila Maida 

 

4         Infamous Daughters: A Capsule Collection Inspired by Wide Sargasso Sea 

 

5         Wide Sargasso Sea Then and Now: Reading Jean  Rhys à la mode 

 

6         After Mrs Rochester: On Portraying Jean Rhys Onstage 

 

7         Interview with James Thackara  

 

       Part II Framing the Text  

 

8         Who Writes for the Trees?: Wide Sargasso Sea, the Dominican Forest, and Its Parrots 

 

9         Jean Rhys Getting the “Feel” of the West Indies in Wide Sargasso Sea

 

10     “Broken Parts”: Wide Sargasso Sea and the Poetics of Caribbean Modernism

 

Part III Sex and Gender

 

11      #Metoo in Wide Sargasso Sea

 

12     The Lineaments of Life and Death: Desire, Sexuality and Manhood in Wide Sargasso Sea

 

13     Vulnerability and Authenticity: The Wisdom of Wide Sargasso Sea

 

       Part IV In Dialogue with Wide Sargasso Sea 

 

14     “I so wanted to hand Emma a copy of Wide Sargasso Sea”: Wide Sargasso Sea and Contemporary Re-workings of Jane Eyre

 

15     Encryption as Transmission: The Secret Gardens of Wide Sargasso Sea

 

16     Burning Down Her Master’s House (Again): Marlon James Responds to Jean Rhys

    

        Index

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O autorze

Elaine Savory is Associate Professor of Literary Studies at The New School in New York, USA. She is the author of Jean Rhys (1999) and The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys (2009), and co-editor of Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature (1990). A poet and literary critic, she has published extensively on Caribbean and African literature and is deeply involved in the fields of ecocriticism and environmental studies. She is also currently working on a memoir.

Erica L. Johnson is Professor and Chair of English at Pace University in New York, USA. She is the author of Cultural Memory, Memorials, and Reparative Writing (2018), Caribbean Ghostwriting (2009), and Home, Maison, Casa (2003). She is also the co-editor of Memory as Colonial Capital (2017), Jean Rhys: Twenty-First-Century Approaches (2015), and The Female Face of Shame (2013).

Blurb

This book revisits Jean Rhys’s ground-breaking 1966 novel to explore its cultural and artistic influence in the areas of not only literature and literary criticism, but fashion design, visual art, and the theatre as well. Building on symposia that were held in London and New York in 2016 in honour of the novel’s half-century, this collection demonstrates just how timely Rhys’s insights into colonial history, sexual relations, and aesthetics continue to be.  The chapters include an extensive interview with novelist Caryl Phillips, who in 2018 published a novel about Rhys’s life, an account of how Wide Sargasso Sea can be read through the lens of the #MeToo Movement, a clothing line inspired by the novel, and new critical directions. As both a celebration and scholarly evaluation, the collection shows how enduring Rhys’s novel is in its continuing literary influence and social commentary.