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Jean Rhys

Author: Elaine Savory
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Series: Cambridge studies in African and Caribbean literature.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"Jean Rhys has long been central to debates in feminist, modernist, Caribbean, British and post-colonial writing. Elaine Savory's study, which refers widely to Rhys criticism and goes beyond it, is a critical reading of Rhys's entire ouevre, including the stories and autobiography, and is informed by recently released unpublished manuscripts by Rhys.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  Read more...
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Named Person: Jean Rhys; Jean Rhys; Jean Rhys; Jean Rhys
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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A critical reading of Rhys's entire oeuvre, including the stories and autobiography, informed by Rhys's own manuscripts.  Read more...

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