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Transnational Jean Rhys

Author : Juliana Lopoukhine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501361309
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Jean Rhys written by Juliana Lopoukhine and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the frameworks that can be applied to reading Caribbean author Jean Rhys. While Wide Sargasso Sea famously displays overt forms of literary influences, Jean Rhys's entire oeuvre is so fraught with connections to other texts and textual practices across geographical boundaries that her classification as a cosmopolitan modernist writer is due for reassessment. Transnational Jean Rhys argues against the relative isolationism that is sometimes associated with Rhys's writing by demonstrating both how she was influenced by a wide range of foreign – especially French – authors and how her influence was in turn disseminated in myriad directions. Including an interview with Black Atlantic novelist Caryl Phillips, this collection charts new territories in the influences on/of an author known for her dislike of literary coteries, but whose literary communality has been underestimated.

Transnational Jean Rhys

Author : Juliana Lopoukhine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781501361326
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Jean Rhys written by Juliana Lopoukhine and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A reassessment of Jean Rhys's literary cosmopolitanism in terms of transnationalism and her literary influences, including an interview with novelist Caryl Phillips"--

Transnational Jean Rhys

Author : Juliana Lopoukhine
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501361317
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Book Synopsis Transnational Jean Rhys by : Juliana Lopoukhine

Download or read book Transnational Jean Rhys written by Juliana Lopoukhine and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume investigates the frameworks that can be applied to reading Caribbean author Jean Rhys. While Wide Sargasso Sea famously displays overt forms of literary influences, Jean Rhys's entire oeuvre is so fraught with connections to other texts and textual practices across geographical boundaries that her classification as a cosmopolitan modernist writer is due for reassessment. Transnational Jean Rhys argues against the relative isolationism that is sometimes associated with Rhys's writing by demonstrating both how she was influenced by a wide range of foreign especially French authors and how her influence was in turn disseminated in myriad directions. Including an interview with Black Atlantic novelist Caryl Phillips, this collection charts new territories in the influences on/of an author known for her dislike of literary coteries, but whose literary communality has been underestimated.

Jean Rhys's Modernist Bearings and Experimental Aesthetics

Author : Sue Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350275778
Total Pages : 284 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 284 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.

Jean Rhys

Author : Juliana Lopoukhine
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000879062
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Jean Rhys written by Juliana Lopoukhine and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-29 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Rhys' position upon the literary map of the 20th century remains unstable, even after Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). She shunned public exposure and yet, desperately sought acknowledgement by her own peers; she stood away from the modernist circles of Montparnasse, in Paris, and yet, explored a radically avant-garde writing which retrospectively makes her rank among them, while her always problematic authority places her in the marginalized position of the postcolonial author. 'Writing precariously', in the case of Jean Rhys, reaches far beyond a mere posture of submission or a necessity to cope with a lack of money or a 'room of one’s own'. Rather, it becomes an ethical and political stance that engages with forms of minimal resistance to forms of subjection just as the very precariousness of her writing thwarts any efforts to 'place' her or her work, to frame her characters or label her style. With Jean Rhys, precariousness is the site where voices silenced and bodies dismissed by a gendered or imperialistic power may be retrieved, until their vulnerability becomes a dislodging force that makes the power structures precarious in turn. This book reassesses the precariousness of Jean Rhys as a distinct positionality eliciting an isolated voice which insists and persists. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal, Women: A Cultural Review.

Caryl Phillips’s Genealogies

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004545557
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Caryl Phillips’s Genealogies written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thematically and structurally, the work of the Kittitian-British writer Caryl Phillips reimagines the notion of genealogy. Phillips’s fiction, drama, and non-fiction foreground broken filiations and forever-deferred promises of new affiliations in the aftermath of slavery and colonization. His texts are also in dialogue with multiple historical figures and literary influences, imagining around the life of the African American comedian Bert Williams and the Caribbean writer Jean Rhys, or retelling the story of Othello. Additionally, Phillips’s work resonates with that of other writers and visual artists, such as Derek Walcott, Toni Morrison, or Isaac Julien. Written to honor the career of renown Phillipsian scholar Bénédicte Ledent, the contributions to this volume, including one by Phillips himself, explore the multiple ramifications of genealogy, across and beyond Phillips’s work.

Transnational Narratives in Englishes of Exile

Author : Catalina Florina Florescu
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498539467
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Narratives in Englishes of Exile written by Catalina Florina Florescu and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monolingual, monolithic English is an issue of the past. In this collection, by using cinema, poetry, art, and novels we demonstrate that English has become the heteroglossic language of immigration – Englishes of exile. By appropriating its plural form we pay respect to all those who have been improving standard English, thus proving that one may be born in a language as well as give birth to a language or add to it one’s own version. The story of the immigrant, refugee, exile, expatriate is everybody’s story, and without migration, we could not evolve our human race.

Modernist Commitments

Author : Jessica Berman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231149514
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Modernist Commitments written by Jessica Berman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernism has long been characterized as more concerned with aesthetics than politics, but Jessica Berman argues that modernist narrative bridges the gap between ethics and politics, connecting ethical attitudes and responsibilities—ideas about what we ought to be and do—to active creation of political relationships and the way we imagine justice. She challenges the divisions usually drawn between "modernist" and "committed" writing, arguing that a continuum of political engagement undergirds modernisms worldwide and that it is strengthened rather than hindered by formal experimentation.

Failed Hybridity

Author : JoSann Marie Lien
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Failed Hybridity written by JoSann Marie Lien and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following thesis examines the postcolonial concept of hybridity--particularly the author's own concept of jailed hybridity--in a transnational context by comparing Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea and Kate Chopin's The Awakening, two novels that address Creole identity in the Caribbean Basin, a region that includes not only the Caribbean Islands but also the many land-based communities in the Americas that border the Mexican Gulf. Although theoretical discussions during the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s suggest that the hybrid condition has the potential to destabilize colonial power structures, the thesis argues that in these two novels hybridity falls short of bringing about long-lasting political and cultural defiance. This shortcoming is called jailed hybridity, and, as the thesis reveals, this concept addresses many of the objections that scholars have raised about hybridity theory since it became popular in postcolonial studies nearly twenty years ago.

The Passage of Literature

Author : Christopher GoGwilt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190454059
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The Passage of Literature written by Christopher GoGwilt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-29 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joseph Conrad, Jean Rhys, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer are writers renowned for crafting narratives of great technical skill that resonate with potent truths on the colonial condition. Yet given the generational and geographical boundaries that separated them, they are seldom considered in conjunction with one another. The Passage of Literature unites the three in a bracing comparative study that breaks away from traditional conceptions of modernism, going beyond temporal periodization and the entrenched Anglo-American framework that undergirds current scholarship. This study nimbly traces a trio of distinct yet interrelated modernist genealogies. English modernism as exemplified by Conrad's Malay trilogy is productively paired with the hallmark work of Indonesian modernism, Pramoedya's Buru quartet. The two novel sequences, penned years apart, narrate overlapping histories of imperialism in the Dutch East Indies, and both make opera central for understanding the cultural dynamic of colonial power. Creole modernism--defined not only by the linguistic diversity of the Caribbean but also by an alternative vision of literary history--provides a transnational context for reading Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea, each novel mapped in relation to the colonial English and postcolonial Indonesian coordinates of Conrad's The Shadow-Line and Pramoedya's This Earth of Mankind. All three modernisms-English, Creole, and Indonesian-converge in a discussion of the Indonesian figure of the nyai, a concubine or house servant, who represents the traumatic core of transnational modernism. Throughout the study, Pramoedya's extraordinary effort to reconstruct the lost record of Indonesia's emergence as a nation provides a model for reading each fragmentary passage of literature as part of an ongoing process of decolonizing tradition. Drawing on translated and un-translated works of fiction and nonfiction, GoGwilt effectively reexamines the roots of Anglophone modernist studies, thereby laying out the imperatives of a new postcolonial philology even as he resituates European modernism within the literary, linguistic, and historical context of decolonization.

Rhys Matters

Author : M. Wilson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781137327901
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Rhys Matters written by M. Wilson and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-08-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhys Matters, the first collection of essays focusing on Rhys's writing in over twenty years, encounters her oeuvre from multiple disciplinary perspectives and appreciates the interventions in modernism, postcolonial studies, Caribbean studies, and women's and gender studies.

The Grammar of Identity

Author : Stephen Clingman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780191557361
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (573 download)

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Download or read book The Grammar of Identity written by Stephen Clingman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our current world, questions of the transnational, location, land, and identity confront us with a particular insistence. The Grammar of Identity is a lively and wide-ranging study of twentieth-century fiction that examines how writers across nearly a hundred years have confronted these issues. Circumventing the divisions of conventional categories, the book examines writers from both the colonial and postcolonial, the modern and postmodern eras, putting together writers who might not normally inhabit the same critical space: Joseph Conrad, Caryl Phillips, Salman Rushdie, Charlotte Brontë, Jean Rhys, Anne Michaels, W. G. Sebald, Nadine Gordimer, and J. M. Coetzee. In this guise, the book itself becomes a journey of discovery, exploring the transnational not so much as a literal crossing of boundaries but as a way of being and seeing. In fictional terms this also means that it concerns a set of related forms: ways of approaching time and space; constructions of the self by way of combination and constellation; versions of navigation that at once have to do with the foundations of language as well as our pathways through the world. From Conrad's waterways of the earth, to Sebald's endless horizons of connection and accountability, to Gordimer's and Coetzee's meditations on the key sites of village, Empire, and desert, the book recovers the centrality of fiction to our understanding of the world. At the heart of it all is the grammar of identity, how we assemble and undertake our versions of self at the core of our forms of being and seeing.

Ethnic Modernisms

Author : D. Konzett
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781349387465
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Ethnic Modernisms written by D. Konzett and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-02-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores a new understanding of modernism and ethnicity as put forward in the transnational and diasporic writings of Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jean Rhys. In its selection of three modernists from apparently different cultural backgrounds, it is meant to make us rethink the role of modernism in terms of ethnicity and displacement. Konzett critiques the traditional understanding of the monocultural 'ethnic identity' often highlighted in the studies of these writers and argues that all three writers are better understood as ironic narrators of diaspora and movement and as avant-garde modernists. As a result, they offer an alternative aesthetics of modernism which is centered around the innovative narration of displacement. Her analysis of the complexities of language and form and impact of the complex and ambiguous formal styles of the three writers on the history of their reception is a model of the effective integration of formalist, historicist, and theoretical perspectives in literary criticism.

Moving Modernisms

Author : David Bradshaw
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191081957
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Moving Modernisms written by David Bradshaw and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in Moving Modernisms: Motion, Technology, and Modernity, written by renowned international scholars, open up the many dimensions and arenas of modernist movement and movements: spatial, geographical and political: affective and physiological; temporal and epochal; technological, locomotive and metropolitan; aesthetic and representational. Individual essays explore modernism's complex geographies, focusing on Anglo-European modernisms while also engaging with the debates engendered by recent models of world literatures and global modernisms. From questions of space and place, the volume moves to a focus on movement and motion, with topics ranging from modernity and bodily energies to issues of scale and quantity. The final chapters in the volume examine modernist film and the moving image, and travel and transport in the modern metropolis. 'Movement is reality itself', the philosopher Henri Bergson wrote: the original and illuminating essays in Moving Modernisms point in new ways to the realities, and the fantasies, of movement in modernist culture.

Travel and Modernist Literature

Author : Alexandra Peat
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136911812
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Travel and Modernist Literature written by Alexandra Peat and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-28 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through close readings of works from Henry James to W. E. B. Du Bois, and from Virginia Woolf to Jean Rhys, this book discusses how fictional travelers negotiate and adapt various tropes of travel (such as quest, expatriation, displacement, and exile) as models for their own journeys. Specifically, Peat considers the ethical dimensions of modernist travel from two distinct vantages. The first focuses on the relationship between the secular and the sacred in modernist travel literature, arguing that the recurrent narrative of secular travel is haunted by a desire for spiritual transcendence. The second posits modernist travel fiction as a potentially positive example of transcultural relations, consciously arguing against the received notion that travel during an imperial era is always by nature itself imperialist. Throughout, particular attention is paid to the transnational nature of modernism and the various global flows traced by modernist literature.

Ethnic Modernisms

Author : D. Konzett
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230107532
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Ethnic Modernisms written by D. Konzett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-11-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores a new understanding of modernism and ethnicity as put forward in the transnational and diasporic writings of Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jean Rhys. In its selection of three modernists from apparently different cultural backgrounds, it is meant to make us rethink the role of modernism in terms of ethnicity and displacement. Konzett critiques the traditional understanding of the monocultural 'ethnic identity' often highlighted in the studies of these writers and argues that all three writers are better understood as ironic narrators of diaspora and movement and as avant-garde modernists. As a result, they offer an alternative aesthetics of modernism which is centered around the innovative narration of displacement. Her analysis of the complexities of language and form and impact of the complex and ambiguous formal styles of the three writers on the history of their reception is a model of the effective integration of formalist, historicist, and theoretical perspectives in literary criticism.

Paradise Redefined

Author : Vanessa Fong
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804772673
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Paradise Redefined written by Vanessa Fong and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book picks up where author Vanessa Fong left off in Only Hope: Coming of Age under China's One-Child Policy (Stanford, 2004), and continues by telling the stories of the Chinese youth who left China in their teens and 20s to study in Australia, Europe, Japan, New Zealand, North America, or Singapore. Fong examines the expectations and experiences of Chinese students who go abroad in search of opportunity, and the factors that cause some to return to China and others to stay abroad.