Rumer Godden: International and Intermodern Storyteller

Rumer Godden: International and Intermodern Storyteller

Rumer Godden: International and Intermodern Storyteller

Rumer Godden: International and Intermodern Storyteller

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Overview

From 1929 to 1997, Rumer Godden published novels, biographies, children's books, and poetry, including Black Narcissus, The Lady and the Unicorn, A Fugue in Time, and The River. In the first collection devoted to this important transnational writer, the essays uncover Godden's significance as a writer who experimented with narrative and interrogated her own uncertain position as an author representing such nomadic Others as gypsies or taking up the displacements brought about by international conflict

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781409475798
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Publication date: 04/28/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Lucy Le-Guilcher received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, where she wrote a thesis entitled Style and Women's Writing, 1940s and 1950s. In December 2007, she organized a centenary symposium on Rumer Godden, and has presented conference papers in Sydney and the UK. She is a regular reviewer for Women: A Cultural Review. Phyllis B. Lassner is Professor in the Crown Center for Jewish Studies, the Gender Studies, and Writing Programs at Northwestern University, USA. She is the author of two books on Elizabeth Bowen, British Women Writers of World War II, Colonial Strangers, Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust, and many articles on women writers. She serves as Co-President of The Space Between Society: Literature and Culture 1914-1945.

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction, Lucy Le-Guilcher and Phyllis Lassner; Part 1 Rumer Godden's India: The view from the middle: Godden and her literary landscape, Mary Grover; 'Far more remote than it actually is': Rumer Godden's Black Narcissus and 1930s mountain writing, Mark Rawlinson; In search of Rumer Godden's India, Gayathri Prabhu; Questions of 'mixed race' in The Lady and the Unicorn and The Peacock Spring, Elizabeth Maslen. Part 2 Godden and British Culture: An experiment with narrative? Rumer Godden's A Fugue in Time, Victoria Stewart; A child's perspective: the reconstruction of the domestic sphere in The Doll's House and Impunity Jane, Lucy Le-Guilcher; Imagining gypsies: growing up in Gypsy, Gypsy and The Diddakoi, Rod Mengham; China Court: Rumer Godden's epic of the English novel, Phyllis Lassner. Part 3 Sexuality and Longing: Childhood, longing, sexuality, violence and sacrifice in Rumer Godden's The River, An Episode of Sparrows, and The Greengage Summer, Philip Tew; Sweetness and darkness: realism in Rumer Godden's novels, Tessa Hadley. Part 4 Rumer Godden's Life and Career: Rumer Godden: a sense of performance and poetry, Anne Harvey; 'A born storyteller': clips from the interviews, Clare Jenkins; 'Sometimes': a daughter's reflections, Jane Murray Flutter; Bibliography; Index.


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