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| Named Person: | Jean Rhys; Jean Rhys; Jean Rhys; Jean Rhys |
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| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Elaine Savory |
| ISBN: | 0521474345 9780521474344 |
| OCLC Number: | 41095285 |
| Description: | xxiii, 306 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Series Title: | Cambridge studies in African and Caribbean literature. |
| Responsibility: | Elaine Savory. |
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"...careful assessment of existing scholarship and... creative contribution to that body of work. Strongly recommended for all academic collections." Choice "...the book is painstakingly researched...and comprehensive in that it covers the entire corpus of published and unpublished work, from early short stories to the late unfinished autobiography...The book, all the more insightful because Savory lived much of her life in the Caribbean, manages to be scholarly yet unstuffy; the writing is fluid and engaging...this is because Savory combines her expertise as a literary critic - her work has appeared in numerous journals which focus on Caribbean and post-colonial literature - with a poet's sensitivity to language." The Caribbean Writer "Despite the volume of critical work devoted to Jean Rhys, she remains an unplaceable writer. She was a modernist who insisted that she had never read many of her contemporaries...Throughout the book, avory martials extensive archival material in support of her argument, and she usefully emphasizes Rhys's intense professionalism. Rhys revised all of her work extensively, a craftman-like approach that has been too little appreciated by scholars." Studies in the Novel Read more...
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- Rhys, Jean -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Women and literature -- Caribbean Area -- History -- 20th century.
- Caribbean Area -- In literature.
- West Indies -- In literature.
- Rhys, Jean, -- 1894-1979 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Rhys, Jean, -- (1894-1979) -- Critique et interprétation.
- Rhys, Jean.
- Roman.
