Jean Rhys: Twenty-First-Century Approaches

Erica Johnson; Patricia Moran

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2015

Jean Rhys

Twenty-First-Century Approaches

Erica Johnson and Patricia Moran

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474402200

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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 particularly Caribbean studies, and although she has long been seen as a modernist writer, she has also been marginalized as one who is not quite in, yet not quite out, either. 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, including Voyage in the Dark, Quartet, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie, and Good Morning, Midnight, as well as her later bestseller, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). The volume establishes Rhys as a major author with relevance to a number of different critical discourses, and includes a path-breaking section on affect theory that shows how contemporary interest in Rhys correlates with the recent 'affective turn' in the social sciences and humanities. As this collection shows, strangely haunting and deeply unsettling, Rhys’s portraits of dispossessed women living in the early and late twentieth-century continue to trouble easy conceptualisations and critical categories.

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New and original work on Jean Rhys’s fiction and short stories, highlighting key areas of her work.
Contributors are　leading scholars on Jean Rhys from the US, the UK, and Australia, including Mary Lou Emery, Elaine Savory, John J. Su, Maroula Joannou, H. Adlai Murdoch, Rishona Zimring, Carine Mardorossian, Patricia Moran, Erica L. Johnson, and Sue Thomas.
Organised around 3 important themes: Rhys and modernism, postcolonial Rhys, and affective Rhys

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Notes on Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: The Haunting of Jean Rhys Patricia Moran and Erica L. Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I Rhys and Modernist Aesthetics
1. Jean Rhys and Katherine Mansfield Writing the ‘sixth act’ Sue Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
2. Making a Scene: Rhys and the Aesthete at Mid-Century Rishona Zimring Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
3. On the Veranda: Jean Rhys’s Material Modernism Mary Lou Emery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
PART II Postcolonial Rhys
4. Jean Rhys’s Environmental Language: Oppositions, Dialogues and Silences Elaine Savory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
5. Caribbean Formations in the Rhysian Corpus Carine M. Mardorossian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
6. ‘From Black to Red’: Jean Rhys’s Use of Dress in Wide Sargasso Sea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
7. The Discourses of Jean Rhys: Resistance, Ambivalence and Creole Indeterminacy H. Adlai Murdoch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	146
PART III Affective Rhys
8. The Empire of Affect: Reading Rhys after Postcolonial Theory John J. Su Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
9. ‘The feelings are always mine’: Chronic Shame and Humiliated Rage in Jean Rhys’s Fiction Patricia Moran Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
10. ‘Upholstered Ghosts’: Jean Rhys’s Posthuman Imaginary Erica L. Johnson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 256
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- Other: 8 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Literary Studies

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Published: June 21, 2015
ISBN: 9781474402200