Jean Rhys
Elaine Savory's study is a critical reading of Rhys' entire oeuvre, including the stories and autobiography, and is informed by recently released unpublished manuscripts by Rhys. Designed both for the serious scholar and those unfamiliar with Rhys' writing, Savory's book insists on the importance of a Caribbean-centered approach to Rhys, and shows how this context profoundly affects her literary style. Informed by contemporary arguments on race, gender, class and nationality, this study offers a comprehensive account of the life and work of this most complex and enigmatic of writers.
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Jean Rhys
Elaine Savory's study is a critical reading of Rhys' entire oeuvre, including the stories and autobiography, and is informed by recently released unpublished manuscripts by Rhys. Designed both for the serious scholar and those unfamiliar with Rhys' writing, Savory's book insists on the importance of a Caribbean-centered approach to Rhys, and shows how this context profoundly affects her literary style. Informed by contemporary arguments on race, gender, class and nationality, this study offers a comprehensive account of the life and work of this most complex and enigmatic of writers.
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Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys

by Elaine Savory
Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys

by Elaine Savory

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Elaine Savory's study is a critical reading of Rhys' entire oeuvre, including the stories and autobiography, and is informed by recently released unpublished manuscripts by Rhys. Designed both for the serious scholar and those unfamiliar with Rhys' writing, Savory's book insists on the importance of a Caribbean-centered approach to Rhys, and shows how this context profoundly affects her literary style. Informed by contemporary arguments on race, gender, class and nationality, this study offers a comprehensive account of the life and work of this most complex and enigmatic of writers.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521033619
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 02/01/2007
Series: Cambridge Studies in African and Caribbean Literature , #7
Pages: 332
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.46(h) x 0.79(d)
Lexile: 1410L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations and note on the text; Chronology; 1. Living on both sides, living to write; 2. Registering protest: The Left Bank and Quartet; 3. A Caribbean woman lost in Europe?: After Leaving Mr MacKenzie and the question of gender; 4. Writing colour, writing Caribbean: Voyage in the Dark and the politics of colour; 5. Dangerous spirit, bitterly amused: Good Morning, Midnight; 6. People in and out of place: spatial arrangements in Wide Sargasso Sea; 7. Brief encounters: Rhys and the craft of the short story; 8. Performance arts: the theatre of autobiography and the role of the personal essay; 9. The Helen of our wars: cultural politics and Jean Rhys criticism; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.
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