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Transnational Jean Rhys
Lines of Transmission, Lines of Flight
«Transnational Jean Rhys is an exciting collection of detective work that yields new insights into Jean Rhys and her work. We discover the wide range of international authors and intellectual trends that influenced her writing, the places she wrote about and the writers across the globe who reference her fiction, and the 'lines of transmission' that connected Rhys the author to such disparate productions as neo-Victorian Australian Great House fiction and Caryl Phillips's new bio-fiction of 'Gwendolyn Williams'. At a time of closed borders and categorization of those who may enter and those who may not, thank goodness for a book that starts from the premise that 'placing' Jean Rhys 'is not only impossible, but simply beside the point'. Indeed, a wealth of perspectives develop how her peripatetic transnational horizon impacted her writing and radiated outward to impact on that of other authors. This is a brave and fascinating recontextualization of the author and her stories.»
Evelyn O'Callaghan, Professor of West Indian Literature, University of the West Indies-Cave Hill, Ba
This volume investigates the frameworks that can be applied to reading Caribbean author Jean Rhys. While Wide Sargasso Sea famously displays overt forms of literary influences, Jean Rhys's entire oeuvre is so fraught with connections to other texts and textual practices across geographical boundaries that her classification as a cosmopolitan modernist writer is due for reassessment. Les mer
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This volume investigates the frameworks that can be applied to reading Caribbean author Jean Rhys. While Wide Sargasso Sea famously displays overt forms of literary influences, Jean Rhys's entire oeuvre is so fraught with connections to other texts and textual practices across geographical boundaries that her classification as a cosmopolitan modernist writer is due for reassessment.
Transnational Jean Rhys argues against the relative isolationism that is sometimes associated with Rhys's writing by demonstrating both how she was influenced by a wide range of foreign – especially French – authors and how her influence was in turn disseminated in myriad directions. Including an interview with Black Atlantic novelist Caryl Phillips, this collection charts new territories in the influences on/of an author known for her dislike of literary coteries, but whose literary communality has been underestimated.
Transnational Jean Rhys argues against the relative isolationism that is sometimes associated with Rhys's writing by demonstrating both how she was influenced by a wide range of foreign – especially French – authors and how her influence was in turn disseminated in myriad directions. Including an interview with Black Atlantic novelist Caryl Phillips, this collection charts new territories in the influences on/of an author known for her dislike of literary coteries, but whose literary communality has been underestimated.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bloomsbury Academic USA
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 224
- ISBN
- 9781501361319
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
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«Transnational Jean Rhys is an exciting collection of detective work that yields new insights into Jean Rhys and her work. We discover the wide range of international authors and intellectual trends that influenced her writing, the places she wrote about and the writers across the globe who reference her fiction, and the 'lines of transmission' that connected Rhys the author to such disparate productions as neo-Victorian Australian Great House fiction and Caryl Phillips's new bio-fiction of 'Gwendolyn Williams'. At a time of closed borders and categorization of those who may enter and those who may not, thank goodness for a book that starts from the premise that 'placing' Jean Rhys 'is not only impossible, but simply beside the point'. Indeed, a wealth of perspectives develop how her peripatetic transnational horizon impacted her writing and radiated outward to impact on that of other authors. This is a brave and fascinating recontextualization of the author and her stories.»
Evelyn O'Callaghan, Professor of West Indian Literature, University of the West Indies-Cave Hill, Ba
«An international collection, featuring many of the experts in the field, which removes Rhys's texts from previous categorizations and takes new transnational and transcultural routes to account for this 'unplaceable' writer. An illuminating reappraisal of her work, of its enduring power and relevance to today's globalized world.»
Sylvie Maurel, Lecturer in English, University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France
«This thoughtfully conceived volume charts Jean Rhys's Caribbean modernism in transcultural passages through England to Europe, especially France, and to Australia and Indonesia, often circuiting back through the Caribbean. Reading Rhys in these extended global contexts reveals new narrative currents within her fiction and creative dialogic responses to it. Transnational Jean Rhys makes a strong case for Rhys as a major literary figure of cosmopolitan origins and influence whose writing continues to inspire the literary, sound, visual and dramatic arts.»
Mary Lou Emery, Professor Emerita of English, University of Iowa, USA
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