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This book reassesses the precariousness of Jean Rhys as a distinct positionality eliciting an isolated voice which insists and persists. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal,
Women: A Cultural Review.
List of contents
Introduction—Jean Rhys: Writing Precariously 1. Inaudible Voices in Sleep It Off Lady 2. Post-scripted Transmissions in Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark 3. The Voices of Others: Intertextuality and Authorial Presences in Jean Rhys’s Short Fiction 4. Writing Jean Rhys a Life: The Circumvolutions of Transmission Lines in the Memoirs and Biographies of Jean Rhys 5. Jean Rhys’s Phantom Manuscript: ‘December 4th., 1938. Mr. Howard’s House. CREOLE.’ 6. Farewell, Socialist Gwen: Poverty and the Politics of Injury in Jean Rhys’s Interwar Fiction 7. ‘Outside the Machine’: Stasis and Conflict in the work of Jean Rhys 8. Painting the Cardboard House Red: Rewriting Colour in Wide Sargasso Sea
About the author
Juliana Lopoukhine is Senior Lecturer in English at the Sorbonne in Paris. Her research interests focus mainly on modernist women writers such as Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys and Rose Macaulay. She is co-editor of a collective volume entitled Transnational Jean Rhys: Lines of Transmission, Lines of Flight (2020).
Frédéric Regard is Professor of British Literature at the Sorbonne in Paris. He wrote his Doctorat d’Etat under the supervision of Hélène Cixous and has been interested in gender issues ever since. His other research interests focus on the English novel in the 19th - 21st centuries. His publications include books on William Golding, George Orwell, Virginia Woolf, Josephine Butler, and he also edited collections of essays on life-writing and exploration narratives.
Kerry-Jane Wallart is Professor in American and Postcolonial Literatures in English at the University of Orleans, France. Her research interests focus on generic hybridity and transcultural connections. She has co-edited a journal issue on Nadine Gordimer (Commonwealth Essays & Studies, 2019) and a volume on Jamaica Kincaid (Wagadu, 2019).
Summary
This book reassesses the precariousness of Jean Rhys as a distinct positionality eliciting an isolated voice which insists and persists. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal, Women: A Cultural Review.
