Wilson / Johnson Rhys Matters

New Critical Perspectives
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-32094-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 271 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: New Caribbean Studies

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilson, M.

Johnson, K.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword; Mary Lou Emery Introduction; Mary Wilson and Kerry L. Johnson PART I: ALTERNATIVES AND ALTERITIES: MARKET, TIME, LANGUAGE 1. Menu, Memento, Souvenir: Suffering and Social Imagination in Good Morning, Midnight ; Andrea Zemgulys 2. Clockwork Women: Temporality and Form in Jean Rhys's Interwar Novels; Nicole Flynn 3. Language and Belonging in Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark ; Ania Spyra PART II: BEING AND BELIEVING: JUDEO-CHRISTIAN INFLUENCES AND IDENTITIES 4. Religion and Rhys; Steve Pinkerton 5. "No Pride, No Name, No Face, No Country": Jewishness and National Identity in Good Morning, Midnight; Jess Issacharoff PART III: THE LOCATION OF IDENTITY: WRITING SPACE AND PLACE 6. The Country and the City in Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark ; Regina Martin 7. '…that misty zone which divides life from death': The Concept of the Zombi in Jean Rhys's Short Fiction; Melanie Otto 8. Reclaiming the Left Bank: Jean Rhys's 'Topography' in Left Bank and Quartet ; David Armstrong PART IV: PLEASURE, POWER, HAPPINESS 9.The Trouble with 'Victim': Triangulated Masochism in Jean Rhys's Quartet ; Jennifer Mitchell 10. The Good Life Will Start Again: Rest, Return, and Remainder in Good Morning, Midnigh t; Andrew Kalaidjian 11. The Un-happy Short Story Cycle: Jean Rhys's Sleep it off, Lady ; Paul Ardoin

Über Autor(innen)

Andrea Zemgulys, University of Michigan, USA Ania Spyra, Butler University, USA Nicole Flynn, South Dakota State University, USA Steve Pinkerton, Cornell University, USA Jess Issacharoff, University of Iowa, USA Regina Martin, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Melanie Otto, Trinity College Dublin, UK David Armstrong, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA Mary Lou Emery, University of Iowa, USA Jennifer Mitchell, Independent Scholar Paul Ardoin, Florida State University, USA