Jean Rhys

Klappentext A critical reading of Rhys's entire oeuvre! including the stories and autobiography! informed by Rhys's own manuscripts. Zusammenfassung Elaine Savory's study! first published in 1999! is a critical reading of Rhys's entire oeuvre and is informed by Rhys's own manuscripts. Designed both for the serious scholar and those unfamiliar with Rhys's writing! Savory offers a comprehensive account of this most complex and enigmatic of writers. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Elaine Savory, Elaine (New School for Social Research Savory
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 11.03.1999
• EAN: 9780521474344
• ISBN: 978-0-521-47434-4
• Pagine: 332
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in African a
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata