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Jean Rhys and the Novel As Women's Text

Author : Nancy R. Harrison
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469639823
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Jean Rhys and the Novel As Women's Text written by Nancy R. Harrison and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is a woman's writing different from a man's? Many scholars -- and readers -- think so, even thought here has been little examination of the way women's novels enact the theories that women theorists have posited. In Jean Rhys and the Novel as Women's Text, Nancy Harrison makes an important contribution to the exchange of ideas on the writing practice of women and to the scholarship on Jean Rhys. Harrison determines what the form of a well-made women's novel discloses about the conditions of women's communication and the literary production that emerges from them. Devoting the first part of her book to theory and general commentary on Rhys's approach to writing, she then offers perceptive readings of Voyage in the Dark, an early Rhys novel, and Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys's masterpiece written twenty-seven years later. She shows how Rhys uses the terms of a man's discourse, then introduces a woman's (or several women's) discourse as a compelling counterpoint that, in time, becomes prominent and gives each novel its thematic impact. In presenting a continuing dialogue with the dominant language and at the same time making explicit the place of a woman's own language, Rhys gives us a paradigm for a new and basically moral text. Originally published in 1988. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

An introduction to the writing practice of Jean Rhys

Author : Nancy R. Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book An introduction to the writing practice of Jean Rhys written by Nancy R. Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jean Rhys, Woman in Passage

Author : Helen Nebeker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Jean Rhys, Woman in Passage written by Helen Nebeker and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jean Rhys and the Novel as Women's Text

Author : Nancy Rebeca Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Jean Rhys and the Novel as Women's Text written by Nancy Rebeca Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jean Rhys at "World's End"

Author : Mary Lou Emery
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292756232
Total Pages : 235 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 2014-01-30 with total page 235 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.

Jean Rhys

Author : Helen Carr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 074631163X
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Jean Rhys written by Helen Carr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a lucid and attractively written study of Jean Rhys whose critical reputation continues to rise after long neglect.

The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys

Author : Elaine Savory
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139478478
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Jean Rhys written by Elaine Savory and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since her death in 1979, Jean Rhys's reputation as an important modernist author has grown. Her finely crafted prose fiction lends itself to multiple interpretations from radically different critical perspectives; formalism, feminism, and postcolonial studies among them. This Introduction offers a reliable and stimulating account of her life, work, contexts and critical reception. Her masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea, is analyzed together with her other novels, including Quartet and After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, and her short stories. Through close readings of the works, Elaine Savory reveals their common themes and connects these to different critical approaches. The book maps Rhys's fictional use of the actual geography of Paris, London and the Caribbean, showing how key understanding her relationships with the metropolitan and colonial spheres is to reading her texts. In this invaluable introduction for students, Savory explains the significance of Rhys as a writer both in her lifetime and today.

Caribbean Women Writers

Author : Mary Condé
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349270717
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Caribbean Women Writers written by Mary Condé and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-02-12 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caribbean Women Writers is a collection of scholarly articles on the fiction of selected Caribbean women writers from Antigua, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica and Trinidad. It includes not only close critical analysis of texts by Erna Brodber, Dionne Brand, Zee Edgell, Jamaica Kincaid, Paule Marshall, Pauline Melville, Jean Rhys and Olive Senior, but also personal statements from the writers Merle Collins, Beryl Gilroy, Vernella Fuller and Velma Pollard.

Jean Rhys

Author : Sylvie Maurel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781350362796
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Jean Rhys written by Sylvie Maurel and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jean Rhys' writings are examined through the frames of feminist criticism and literary theory, providing close readings of the texts and their language. The book explores the various forms of feminine dissent at work in Jean Rhys' fiction. She is shown to develop an ethics of subversion through resistance to closure, irony, parody and her daring rewriting of Jane Eyre . Each novel is treated as a complete aesthetic whole, with substantial references to the short stories, for a more penetrating insight into Jean Rhys' fictional universe."--

Recharting the Thirties

Author : Patrick J. Quinn
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945636908
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Recharting the Thirties written by Patrick J. Quinn and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of Recharting the Thirties is to revitalize the awareness of the reading public with regard to eighteen writers whose books have been largely ignored by publishers and scholars since their major works first appeared in the thirties. The selection is not based on a political agenda, but encompasses a wide and divergent range of philosophies; clearly, the contrasts between Empson and Upward, or between Powell and Slater, indicated the wide-ranging vision of the period. Women writers of the period have largely been marginalized, and the writings of Sackville-West and Burdekin, for example, not only present distinct feminine voices of the period, but also illuminate how much good literature has been forgotten.

Snow on the Cane Fields

Author : Judith L. Raiskin
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816623015
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Snow on the Cane Fields written by Judith L. Raiskin and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snow on the Cane Fields was first published in 1995. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In a probing analysis of creole women's writing over the past century, Judith Raiskin explores the workings and influence of cultural and linguistic colonialism. Tracing the transnational and racial meanings of creole identity, Raiskin looks at four English-speaking writers from South Africa and the Caribbean: Olive Schreiner, Jean Rhys, Michelle Cliff, and Zoë Wicomb. She examines their work in light of the discourses of their times: nineteenth-century "race science" and imperialistic rhetoric, turn-of-the-century anti-Semitic sentiment and feminist pacifism, postcolonial theory, and apartheid legislation. In their writing and in their multiple identities, these women highlight the gendered nature of race, citizenship, culture, and the language of literature. Raiskin shows how each writer expresses her particular ambivalences and divided loyalties, both enforcing and challenging the proprietary British perspective on colonial history, culture, and language. A new perspective on four writers and their uneasy places in colonial culture, Snow on the Cane Fields reveals the value of pursuing a feminist approach to questions of national, political, and racial identity. Judith Raiskin is assistant professor of women's studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

The Art of Scandal

Author : Sean Latham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199922934
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Scandal written by Sean Latham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Scandal advances a relatively simple claim with far-reaching consequences for modernist studies: writers and readers throughout the early twentieth century revived the long-despised codes and habits of the roman á clef as a key part of that larger assault on Victorian realism we now call modernism. In the process, this resurgent genre took on a life of its own, reconfiguring the intricate relationship between literature, celebrity, and the law. Sean Latham summons cases of the novel's social notoriety--and the numerous legal scandals the form provoked--to articulate the material networks of reception and circulation through which modernism took shape, revealing a little explored popular history within its development. Producers as well as consumers used elements of the controversial roman á clef, a genre that challenges the idea of fiction as autonomous from the social and political world. In turn, this widespread practice provoked not only a generative aesthetic crisis, but also a gradually unfolding legal quandary that led Britain's highest courts to worry that fiction itself might be illegal. Modernism sat squarely, for a time, between literature and the law. With skillful close readings aided by extensive archival research, Latham illuminates the world of backbiting, gossip, litigation, and sensationalism through chapters on Oscar Wilde's trial, Joyce's Ulysses, celebrity salons, and Parisian bohemia. Original, colorful, and perceptive, The Art of Scandal both salvages the reputation of the roman á clef form and traces its curious itinerary through the early twentieth century. Seeking out the best new interdisciplinary work, this series explores the cultural bearings of literary modernism across multiple fields, geographies, symbolic forms, and media.

Gayatri Spivak

Author : Ola Abdalkafor
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443877778
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Gayatri Spivak written by Ola Abdalkafor and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does Spivak approach the signs the madwoman in the attic, the good black servant, the monster and the “wholly Other”? What is the basis of Spivak’s ethics of interpretation and what are her main tools? Gayatri Spivak: Deconstruction and the Ethics of Postcolonial Literary Interpretation is an ambitious and compelling critical work which answers various questions surrounding one of the most notoriously difficult literary theorists in our times. This book is an in-depth study of Spivak’s readings of a cluster of canonical and peripheral literary texts covering Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, Frankenstein, Foe and “Pterodactyl.” It divides Spivak’s literary theoretical practice into two phases; the first is de Manian and the second is Derridean. However, the book also shows that these two phases are not clearly independent from each other; rather, there are continuities between them. The theory resulting from these two phases can be described as affirmative postcolonial literary interpretation: Derridean in spirit but de Manian in technique. The book also meticulously defines Spivak’s position within the thought of Derrida, de Man and western feminists and reveals the possibilities available for readers who wish to ethically approach and interpret the sign of the “wholly Other,” which reaches in its scope “the native subaltern female.” Analysing Spivak’s literary interpretation as such, this book offers insights to postcolonial readers and provides them with new tools, such as “learning from below,” useful for reading not literature only, but also contemporary political, cultural and social issues from new perspectives.

Contemporary Women's Writing

Author : Maroula Joannou
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719053399
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Women's Writing written by Maroula Joannou and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging study provides a historically grounded account of women's fiction in the 1960s and the 1970s, relating changes in the social structure of Britain and the United States to the literary representations of women's experience.

Body Politics Rethinking Gender and Masculinity

Author : Tanmoy Baghira & Ananya Mukherjee
Publisher : Tanmoy Baghira & Ananya Mukherjee
ISBN 13 : 8194885000
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book Body Politics Rethinking Gender and Masculinity written by Tanmoy Baghira & Ananya Mukherjee and published by Tanmoy Baghira & Ananya Mukherjee. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research on men and masculinities traces back to the women’s and gay liberation movements that challenged existing understandings of gender and power. This proposes to look into gender as socially constructed than what was earlier thought to be biological. As a logical extension of Feminism, Masculinity Studies looks into sex/gender as a discursive social construct and tries to understand them through theoretical hermeneutics. Instead of considering masculinity to be ‘natural character type’, ‘a behavioural average’ or ‘a norm’, the focus should be given to the process through which the gendered bodies perform. In this regard, sex/gender is not fixed, instead is in a continuous flux; thus, masculinity should be recognised as a gender presentation that is continuously transforming and evolving. This volume, Body Politics: Rethinking Gender and Masculinity will engage with the current developments in the field of Masculinity Studies and will try to diversify the issues of gender and masculinity.

West Indian intellectuals in Britain

Author : Bill Schwarz
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847795714
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book West Indian intellectuals in Britain written by Bill Schwarz and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. The first comprehensive discussion of the major Caribbean thinkers who came to Britain. Written in an accessible, lively style, with a range of wonderful and distinguished authors. Key book for thinking about the future of multicultural Britain; study thus far has concentrated on Caribbean literature and how authors ‘write back’ to Britain – this book is the first to consider how they ‘think back’ to Britain. A book of the moment - nothing comparable on the Carribean influence on Britain.. Discusses the influence, amongst others, of C. L. R. James, Una Marson, George Lamming, Jean Rhys, Claude McKay and V. S. Naipaul.

Figural Space

Author : William D. Melaney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538147866
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Figural Space written by William D. Melaney and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides a philosophical overview of select classics of Renaissance to contemporary literature to show how the notion of figural space is crucial to assessing the ethical and political aspects of literary study.