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Jean Rhys: twenty-first-century approaches
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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 h…
Jean Rhys: twenty-first-century approaches
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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 o…
This is a lucid and attractively written study of Jean Rhys whose critical reputation continues to rise after long neglect.
Helen Carr's account draws on both recent feminism and postcolonial theory, and places Jean Rhys's work in relation to modernist and postmodernist writing.
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 Establishm…