Jean Rhys: twenty-first-century approaches

by Johnson, Erica L. Moran, Patricia, (Patricia L.)

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"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."

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Full title :Jean Rhys : twenty-first-century approaches / edited by Erica L. Johnson and Patricia Moran.

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Publication Date:©2015

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Publisher(s):Edinburgh University Press
Place of Publication:Edinburgh
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2015

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Description:xi, 244 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm

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ISBN:9781474402194, 1474402194
oclc:ocn907131397
LC Classification:PR6035.H96
Dewey Decimal:823.9

Introduction : the haunting of Jean Rhys / Erica L. Johnson and Patricia Moran -- Part I. Rhys and modernist aesthetics. Jean Rhys and Katherine Mansfield writing the 'sixth act' / Sue Thomas -- Making a scene : Rhys and the Aesthete at mid-century / Rishona Zimring -- On the veranda : Jean Rhys's material modernism / Mary Lou Emery -- Part II. Postcolonial Rhys. Jean Rhys's environmental language : oppositions, dialogues and silences / Elaine Savory -- Caribbean formations in the Rhysian corpus / Carine M. Mardorossian -- 'From black to red' : Jean Rhys's use of dress in Wide Sargasso Sea / Maroula Joannou -- The discourses of Jean Rhys : resistance, ambivalence and Creole indeterminacy / H. Adlai Murdoch -- Part III. Affective Rhys. The empire of affect : reading Rhys after postcolonial theory / John J. Su -- 'The feelings are always mine' : chronic shame and humiliated rage in Jean Rhys's fiction / Patricia Moran -- 'Upholstered ghosts' : Jean Rhys's posthuman imaginary / Erica L. Johnson.