Jean Rhys

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Helen Carr draws on feminist and postcolonial theory to place Rhys's work in the context of modernist and postmodernist writing.She argues that Rhys's fiction was drawn from the fabric of her own life and enabled her to powerfully critique the greed and cruelty of the Establishment world, both of Europe and of Empire.

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Title Statements

Full title :Jean Rhys / Helen Carr.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:2012.
Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):British Council, Northcote
Place of Publication:Tavistock, Devon, U.K
Language:eng
Publication Date:2012.

Notes

Previous edition: 1996.

The Physical Object

Description:xvi, 153 pages ; : 22 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780746311639, 074631163X
oclc:ocm56658653
LC Classification:PR6035.H96
Dewey Decimal:813.5'4

Jean Rhys and her critics -- Feminist approaches to Jean Rhys -- The Caribbean question -- Writing in the margins -- Autobiography and ambivalence -- 'The day they burned the books' -- Fort Comme La Mort : the French Connection -- The politics of Good morning, midnight -- The huge machine of law, order and respectability -- Resisting the machine -- The enemy within -- Goodnight, day -- Intemperate and unchaste -- The other side -- The struggle for the sign.

Subjects

Caraïbes (Région) -- Dans la littérature Caribbean Area Caribbean Area -- In literature Criticism, interpretation, etc England English fiction English fiction -- History and criticis… Feminism and literature Feminism and literature -- History -- 2… Femmes et littérature -- Histoire -- 20… History Literature Rhys, Jean Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature Roman anglais -- Histoire et critique. … Sex role in literature Women and literature Women and literature -- History -- 20th…