Jean Rhys: Twenty-First-Century Approaches

Jean Rhys

Twenty-First-Century Approaches

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Edited by Erica Johnson, Patricia Moran

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: September 2017
Print publication year:: 2015
Online ISBN:: 9781474402200

Subjects:: Literature, Literary Texts, Literary Theory

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The 11 newly commissioned essays collected in this volume demonstrate Jean Rhys's centrality to modernism and to postcolonial literature alike by addressing her stories and novels from the 1920s and 1930s, including Voyage in the Dark, Quartet, After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie, and Good Morning, Midnight, as well as her later bestseller, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). 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. As this collection shows, strangely haunting and deeply unsettling, Rhys's portraits of dispossessed women living in the early and late twentieth-century continue to trouble easy conceptualisations and critical categories.

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Twenty-First-Century Approaches

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iv

List of Figures
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-viii

Notes on Contributors
pp ix-xii

Introduction: The Haunting of Jean Rhys
pp 1-18

PART I - Rhys and Modernist Aesthetics
pp 19-20

1 - Jean Rhys and Katherine Mansfield Writing the ‘sixth act’
pp 21-39

2 - Making a Scene: Rhys and the Aesthete at Mid-Century
pp 40-58

3 - On the Veranda: Jean Rhys's Material Modernism
pp 59-82

PART II - Postcolonial Rhys
pp 83-84

4 - Jean Rhys's Environmental Language: Oppositions, Dialogues and Silences
pp 85-106

5 - Caribbean Formations in the Rhysian Corpus
pp 107-122

6 - ‘From Black to Red’: Jean Rhys's Use of Dress in Wide Sargasso Sea
pp 123-145

7 - The Discourses of Jean Rhys: Resistance, Ambivalence and Creole Indeterminacy
pp 146-168

PART III - Affective Rhys
pp 169-170

8 - The Empire of Affect: Reading Rhys after Postcolonial Theory
pp 171-189

9 - ‘The feelings are always mine’: Chronic Shame and Humiliated Rage in Jean Rhys's Fiction
pp 190-208

10 - ‘Upholstered Ghosts’: Jean Rhys's Posthuman Imaginary
pp 209-227

Bibliography
pp 228-237

Index
pp 238-244

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