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Exploring Cultural Identities in Jean Rhys’ Fiction

Author : Cristina-Georgiana Voicu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110368129
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Cultural Identities in Jean Rhys’ Fiction written by Cristina-Georgiana Voicu and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a theoretical approach and a critical summary, combining the perspectives in the postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis and narratology with the tools of hermeneutics and deconstruction, this book argues that Jean Rhys’s work can be subsumed under a poetics of cultural identity and hybridity. It also demonstrates the validity of the concept of hybridization as the expression of identity formation; the cultural boundaries variability; the opposition self-otherness, authenticity-fiction, trans-textuality; and the relevance of an integrated approach to multiple cultural identities as an encountering and negotiation space between writer, reader and work. The complexity of ontological and epistemological representation involves an interdisciplinary approach that blends a literary interpretive approach to social, anthropological, cultural and historical perspectives. The book concludes that in the author’s fictional universe, cultural identity is represented as a general human experience that transcends the specific conditionalities of geographical contexts, history and culture. The construction of identity by Jean Rhys is represented by the dichotomy of marginal identity and the identification with a human ideal designed either by the hegemonic discourse or metropolitan culture or by the dominant ideology. The identification with a pattern of cultural authenticity, of racial, ethnic, or national purism is presented as a purely destructive cultural projection, leading to the creation of a static universe in opposition to the diversity of human feelings and aspirations. Jean Rhys’s fictional discourse lies between “the anxiety of authorship” and “the anxiety of influence” and shows the postcolonial era of uprooting and migration in which the national ownership diluted the image of a “home” ambiguous located at the boundary between a myth of origins and a myth of becoming. The relationship between the individual and socio-cultural space is thus shaped in a dual hybrid position.

Exploring Cultural Identities in Jean Rhys’ Fiction

Author : Cristina-Georgiana Voicu
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 8376560689
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (765 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Cultural Identities in Jean Rhys’ Fiction written by Cristina-Georgiana Voicu and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a theoretical approach and a critical summary, combining the perspectives in the postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis and narratology with the tools of hermeneutics and deconstruction, this book argues that Jean Rhys’s work can be subsumed under a poetics of cultural identity and hybridity. It also demonstrates the validity of the concept of hybridization as the expression of identity formation; the cultural boundaries variability; the opposition self-otherness, authenticity-fiction, trans-textuality; and the relevance of an integrated approach to multiple cultural identities as an encountering and negotiation space between writer, reader and work. The complexity of ontological and epistemological representation involves an interdisciplinary approach that blends a literary interpretive approach to social, anthropological, cultural and historical perspectives. The book concludes that in the author’s fictional universe, cultural identity is represented as a general human experience that transcends the specific conditionalities of geographical contexts, history and culture. The construction of identity by Jean Rhys is represented by the dichotomy of marginal identity and the identification with a human ideal designed either by the hegemonic discourse or metropolitan culture or by the dominant ideology. The identification with a pattern of cultural authenticity, of racial, ethnic, or national purism is presented as a purely destructive cultural projection, leading to the creation of a static universe in opposition to the diversity of human feelings and aspirations. Jean Rhys’s fictional discourse lies between “the anxiety of authorship” and “the anxiety of influence” and shows the postcolonial era of uprooting and migration in which the national ownership diluted the image of a “home” ambiguous located at the boundary between a myth of origins and a myth of becoming. The relationship between the individual and socio-cultural space is thus shaped in a dual hybrid position.

Exploring Cultural Identities in Jean Rhys' Fiction

Author : Cristina-Georgiana Voicu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788376560663
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Exploring Cultural Identities in Jean Rhys' Fiction written by Cristina-Georgiana Voicu and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jean Rhys's Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics

Author : Sue Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135027576X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Jean Rhys's Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics written by Sue Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressing Jean Rhys's composition and positioning of her fiction, this book invites and challenges us to read the tacit, silent and explicit textual bearings she offers and reveals new insights about the formation, scope and complexity of Rhys's experimental aesthetics. Tracing the distinctive and shifting evolution of Rhys's experimental aesthetics over her career, Sue Thomas explores Rhys's practices of composition in her fiction and drafts, as well as her self-reflective comment on her writing. The author examines patterns of interrelation, intertextuality, intermediality and allusion, both diachronic and synchronic, as well as the cultural histories entwined within them. Through close analysis of these, this book reveals new experimental, thematic, generic and political reaches of Rhys's fiction and sharpens our insight into her complex writerly affiliations and lineages.

(Inter)Cultural Dialogue and Identity in Lithuanian Literature

Author : Irena Ragaišienė
Publisher : V&R Unipress
ISBN 13 : 3847016156
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book (Inter)Cultural Dialogue and Identity in Lithuanian Literature written by Irena Ragaišienė and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates that the idea of a 'national' literature is profoundly problematic. Chapters on boundaries and crisscrossing show how a nation and its writers' works do not exist in isolation from their history. Stressing migration and (inter)cultural dialogue, authors explore how the characters in the texts establish a sense of belonging both within the context of migrations and within the context of Lithuania since its independence. The final series of essays in this book discusses Lithuanian literature abroad that is in translation.

On the Question of Identity in the Novel "Wide Sargasso Sea" of Jean Rhys

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Author : Julia Straub
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668930511
Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book On the Question of Identity in the Novel "Wide Sargasso Sea" of Jean Rhys written by Julia Straub and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 2,7, University of Constance, course: British and American Studies, language: English, abstract: This work focuses on the question of identity in the novel "Wide Sargasso Sea". Antoinette, the female protagonist of Jean Rhys’ novel "Wide Sargasso Sea", is struggling with those questions of her identity all her life. As a Creole girl, who lives in Jamaica during post-colonialism, she finds herself caught between two identities not knowing where she belongs. On the one hand, there is the black community which she knows and grows up with, on the other hand the white community which her mother tries to be a part of and forces Antoinette to fit into as well. This life between two contrasting cultures forces Antoinette into a situation of confusion and doubt which makes her question not only where she belongs but if she belongs at all. It drives her into a crisis which she is not able to escape. Jean Rhys published her novel in 1966. "Wide Sargasso Sea" tells the story of Antoinette Cosway who is also, known under the name of Bertha, a character of Charlotte Brontë's novel "Jane Eyre". In "Wide Sargasso Sea" Rhys is giving Bertha/ Antoinette a story and a reason why she became mad in the first place. The story starts in her childhood and moves on to the marriage to Mr. Rochester. The last part is set when she is already imprisoned by her husband and is setting the house on fire which accords with the story told in "Jane Eyre". For the background of the novel it is important to know that Rhys herself grew up in a situation like Antoinette’s. She as well had troubles with identifying herself when she grew up. So Rhys shares part of Antoinette’s history which is probably why she was that interested in telling her story which is completely uncared-for by Brontë.

Sherlock Holmes, Byomkesh Bakshi, and Feluda

Author : Anindita Dey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498512119
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Sherlock Holmes, Byomkesh Bakshi, and Feluda written by Anindita Dey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-12-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores some popular Bangla detective texts to perceive if there are any hegemonic influences of the Holmesian canon—if not, how has identity and existence against imperialism been established is perused. The significance of Indian texts through the leitmotif of indigeneity is foregrounded. Bengaliness resists Anglo/Eurocentrism.

A Political Biography of Aung San Suu Kyi

Author : Michał Lubina
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000178196
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book A Political Biography of Aung San Suu Kyi written by Michał Lubina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first political biography of Aung San Suu Kyi covering both her years in opposition and all her years in power from 2016 onwards. It offers a new interpretation of Aung San Suu Kyi by presenting a balanced and thorough account of Suu Kyi’s policies. In the last 30 years there has not been a person in global politics who has risen so high and fallen so low – and so quickly – as Aung San Suu Kyi. Using postcolonial theory and introducing the new concept of `a hybrid politician', this book explains apparent inconsistencies of Suu Kyi’s agenda. It demonstrates that Suu Kyi considers herself a democrat and yet, rules autocratically. Immersed in her country’s tradition of policymaking, she has at the same time been influenced by foreign concepts, both Western and Asian. Drawing on first-hand research, including talks with Suu Kyi, conversations with her supporters and rivals, observations of Suu Kyi’s behaviour during intergovernmental talks as well as an extensive number of sources and fieldwork in Myanmar, the author argues that Suu Kyi’s case shows both the strengths and limits of hybridity. This brings Suu Kyi priceless political assets such as visibility, recognition and support while proving that such a model of leadership has its restrictions. A timely biography of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate as she appears at the International Court of Justice to defend her country against charges of genocide committed against the Rohingya Muslim minority, this book will be of interest to students and researchers of Myanmar politics, Southeast Asian politics, Asian politics, Political Science more generally, Postcolonial Studies, Cultural Studies and Leadership Studies.

English Literature in Context

Author : Paul Poplawski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107141672
Total Pages : 757 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book English Literature in Context written by Paul Poplawski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Anglo-Saxon runes to postcolonial rap, this undergraduate textbook covers the social and historical contexts of the whole of the English literature.

Postmodern Approaches to the Short Story

Author : Farhat Iftekharrudin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313058091
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Approaches to the Short Story written by Farhat Iftekharrudin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-03-30 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernism, as a mode of the contemporary short story, has been clearly established and recognized by short story theorists. But postmodern theory, as pervasive as it has become among academics in the last half century, has scarcely been applied to the short story genre in particular. Many contemporary scholars, nonetheless, are currently making use of certain postmodern thematic approaches to help them determine meanings of particular short stories. T Short story theory began with Edgar Allan Poe's review of Twice-Told Tales, a collection of stories by his contemporary, Nathaniel Hawthorne. But theoretical discussions of the short story languished until modernism and the new criticism provided impetus for further development. Surprisingly, though, the next large critical movement, postmodernism, failed to address the short story as a genre. But while there is little postmodern theory concerning the short story, contemporary scholars have used certain postmodern critical approaches to help determine meaning. This book demonstrates the effect of postmodern theory on the study of the short story genre. The expert contributors to this volume examine such topics as genre and form, the role of the reader, cultural and ethnic diversity, and feminist perspectives on the short story. In doing so, they apply postmodern theoretical approaches to international short stories, be they in the traditional mode, the modern mode, or the postmodern mode. The volume looks at fiction by Edith Wharton, Henry James, Katherine Mansfield, and other authors, and at Iranian short fiction, the postcolonial short story, the fantastic in short fiction, and other subjects.

The Meaning of Fashion in Jean Rhys. An Analysis of Gender and Identity

Author : Josianne Strube
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 334610883X
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Fashion in Jean Rhys. An Analysis of Gender and Identity written by Josianne Strube and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bachelor Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Cologne, language: English, abstract: This paper’s objective is to explore the ways in which Jean Rhys - in a quite revolutionary way - depicts fashion as a practice with various meanings. Fashion is entangled in a composite relationship with identity and the visual communication inherent in dress practices is much more complex than might first appear. In fact, Rhys raises questions about the political force of fashion enacted by women of different backgrounds. Albeit a fashion addict herself, she remains very critical of fashion’s positive possibilities, rather focusing on its counter-enforcement on female identity as well as making use of it as a means to examine social coherences. Rhys has written five novels and various short stories. The novels I chose reflect different periods of her writing as well as different cultural, social and historical contexts. Additionally, the protagonists in each novel are of different ages, giving an insight into different situational concerns of women regarding fashion. Rhys’s characters are markedly similar, always outsiders, always close to the edge. Good Morning, Midnight and Voyage in the Dark depict Sasha Jansen and Anna Morgan’s movement in the modern urban space in which ‘good’ clothing is deemed a prerequisite. Wide Sargasso Sea sets a different focus, placing the subject of clothing in a colonial context. Rhys’s wrote her masterpiece Wide Sargasso Sea – published twenty-seven years after the publication of the last of her ‘continental’ novels - as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Unhappy about Brontë’s description of Rochester’s mad Creole wife Bertha, Rhys conceptualized the novel as a rereading of the tragic life story of Antoinette “Bertha” Cosway. The project includes several strands of theoretical thought to illuminate the multifaceted use of fashion in Rhys’s novels. In chapter two, each theoretical concept is outlined and summarized. In chapter three, I link the theories to Rhys’s texts. I start my analysis with two sociological theories, Georg Simmel’s Fashion (1904) and Joanne Finkelstein’s The Fashioned Self (1991). Simmel’s concepts are particularly helpful in relation to the historical context of Rhys’s writing. Finkelstein critically examines aspects which are elemental features for Rhys’s writing on fashion: consumerism, the commodification of the female body, the illusory act of transformation and the resulting ‘surface life.’

Wide Sargasso Sea at 50

Author : Elaine Savory
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030282236
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Wide Sargasso Sea at 50 written by Elaine Savory and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Pepper-pot of Cultures

Author : Gordon Collier
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042009189
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Pepper-pot of Cultures written by Gordon Collier and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2003 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The terms 'creole' and 'creolization' have witnessed a number of significant semantic changes in the course of their history. Originating in the vocabulary associated with colonial expansion in the Americas it had been successively narrowed down to the field of black American culture or of particular linguistic phenomena. Recently 'creole' has expanded again to cover the broad area of cultural contact and transformation characterizing the processes of globalization initiated by the colonial migrations of past centuries. The present volume is intended to illustrate these various stages either by historical and/or theoretical discussion of the concept or through selected case studies. The authors are established scholars from the areas of literature, linguistics and cultural studies; they all share a lively and committed interest in the Caribbean area - certainly not the only or even oldest realm in which processes of creolization have shaped human societies, but one that offers, by virtue of its history of colonialization and cross-cultural contact, its most pertinent example. The collection, beyond its theoretical interest, thus also constitutes an important survey of Caribbean studies in Europe and the Americas. As well as searching overview essays, there are - sociolinguistic contributions on the linguistic geography of 'criollo' in Spanish America, the Limonese creole speakers of Costa Rica, 'creole' language and identity in the Netherlands Antilles and the affinities between Papiamentu and Chinese in Curaçao - ethnohistorical examinations of such topics as creole transgression in the Dominican/Haitian borderland, the Haitian Mandingo and African fundamentalism, creolization and identity in West-Central Jamaica, Afro-Nicaraguans and national identity, and the Creole heritage of Haiti - studies of religion and folk culture, including voodoo and creolization in New York City, the creolization of the "Mami Wata" water spirit, and signifyin(g) processes in New World Anancy tales - a group of essays focusing on the thought of Édouard Glissant, Maryse Condé, and the Créolité writers and case-studies of artistic expression, including creole identities in Caribbean women's writing, Port-au-Prince in the Haitian novel, Cynthia McLeod and Astrid Roemer and Surinamese fiction, Afro-Cuban artistic expression, and metacreolization in the fiction of Robert Antoni and Nalo Hopkinson.

Caribbean Autobiography

Author : Sandra Pouchet Paquet
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299176932
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)

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Download or read book Caribbean Autobiography written by Sandra Pouchet Paquet and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2002-07-22 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the range and abundance of autobiographical writing from the Anglophone Caribbean, this book is the first to explore this literature fully. It covers works from the colonial era up to present-day AIDS memoirs and assesses the links between more familiar works by George Lamming, C. L. R. James, Derek Walcott, V. S. Naipaul, and Jamaica Kincaid and less frequently cited works by the Hart sisters, Mary Prince, Mary Seacole, Claude McKay, Yseult Bridges, Jean Rhys, Anna Mahase, and Kamau Brathwaite. Sandra Pouchet Paquet charts the intersection of multiple, contradictory viewpoints of the colonial and postcolonial Caribbean, differing concepts of community and levels of social integration, and a persistent pattern of both resistance and accommodation within island states that were largely shaped by British colonial practice from the mid-seventeenth through the mid-twentieth century. The texts examined here reflect the entire range of autobiographical practice, including the slave narrative and testimonial, written and oral narratives, spiritual autobiographies, fiction, serial autobiography, verse, diaries and journals, elegy, and parody.

Narrating from the Margins

Author : Nagihan Haliloğlu
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401200661
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Narrating from the Margins written by Nagihan Haliloğlu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Narrating from the Margins, Nagihan Haliloğlu casts a discerning look at Jean Rhys’s protagonists and the ways in which they engage in self-narration. The book offers a close reading of Rhys’s novels, with particular attention to the links between identity construction and self-narration, in a modernist and postcolonial idiom. It draws attention to particular subject-categories that Rhys’s protagonists fall into, such as the amateur and the white Creole, and delineates narrating personas such as the mad witch and the zombie, to explore aspects of de-essentalization, narrative agency, and dysnarrativia. The way in which Rhys’s protagonists engage in self-narration reveals the close link between race and gender, and how both are contained by similar metaphors, or how, indeed, they become metaphors for each other. The narrators are defined in relation to their place in the ‘holy English family’ and how they transgress the rules of that family to become ‘exiles’. The study explores the ways in which the self-narrator responds when her narrative is obstructed by society; such as creating a community of stories in which her own makes sense, and/or resorting to third-person narration.

Colonialism and the Modernist Moment in the Early Novels of Jean Rhys

Author : Carol Dell'Amico
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135489009
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Colonialism and the Modernist Moment in the Early Novels of Jean Rhys written by Carol Dell'Amico and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonialism and the Modernist Moment in the Early Novels of Jean Rhys explores the postcolonial significance of Rhys’s modernist period work, which depicts an urban scene more varied than that found in other canonical representations of the period. Arguing against the view that Rhys comes into her own as a colonial thinker only in the post-WWII period of her career, this study examines the austere insights gained by Rhys’s active cultivation of her fringe status vis-à-vis British social life and artistic circles, where her sharp study of the aporias of marginal lives and the violence of imperial ideology is distilled into an artistic statement positing the outcome of the imperial venture as a state of homelessness across the board, for colonized and ‘metropolitans’ alike. Bringing to view heretofore overlooked émigré populations, or their children, alongside locals, Rhys’s urbanites struggle to construct secure lives not simply as a consequence of commodification, alienation, or voluntary expatriation, but also as a consequence of marginalization and migration. This view of Rhys’s early work asserts its vital importance to postcolonial studies, an importance that has been overlooked owing to an over hasty critical consensus that only one of her early novels contains significant colonial content. Yet, as this study demonstrates, proper consideration of colonial elements long considered only incidental illuminates a colonial continuum in Rhys’s work from her earliest publications.

Jean Rhys at "World's End"

Author : Mary Lou Emery
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292735650
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Jean Rhys at "World's End" written by Mary Lou Emery and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-08-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caribbean Islands have long been an uneasy meeting place among indigenous peoples, white European colonists, and black slave populations. Tense oppositions in Caribbean culture—colonial vs. native, white vs. black, male conqueror vs. female subject—supply powerful themes and spark complex narrative experiments in the fiction of Dominica-born novelist Jean Rhys. In this pathfinding study, Mary Lou Emery focuses on Rhys's handling of these oppositions, using a Caribbean cultural perspective to replace the mainly European aesthetic, moral, and psychological standards that have served to misread and sometimes devalue Rhys's writing. Emery considers all five Rhys novels, beginning with Wide Sargasso Sea as the most explicitly Caribbean in its setting, in its participation in the culminating decades of a West Indian literary naissance, and most importantly, in its subversive transformation of European concepts of character. From a sociocultural perspective, she argues persuasively that the earlier novels—Voyage in the Dark, Quartet, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie, and Good Morning, Midnight—should be read as emergent Caribbean fiction, written in tense dialogue with European modernism. Building on this thesis, she reveals how the apparent passivity, masochism, or silence of Rhys's female protagonists results from their doubly marginalized status as women and as subject peoples. Also, she explores how Rhys's women seek out alternative identities in dreamed of, magically realized, or chosen communities. These discoveries offer important insights on literary modernism, Caribbean fiction, and the formation of female identity.