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Jean Rhys's position upon the literary map of the 20th century
remains unstable, even after Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). She shunned
public exposure and yet, desperately sought acknowledgement by her
own peers; she stood away from the modernist circles of
Montparnasse, in Paris, and yet, explored a radically avant-garde
writing which retrospectively makes her rank among them, while her
always problematic authority places her in the marginalized
position of the postcolonial author. 'Writing precariously', in the
case of Jean Rhys, reaches far beyond a mere posture of submission
or a necessity to cope with a lack of money or a 'room of one's
own'. Rather, it becomes an ethical and political stance that
engages with forms of minimal resistance to forms of subjection
just as the very precariousness of her writing thwarts any efforts
to 'place' her or her work, to frame her characters or label her
style. With Jean Rhys, precariousness is the site where voices
silenced and bodies dismissed by a gendered or imperialistic power
may be retrieved, until their vulnerability becomes a dislodging
force that makes the power structures precarious in turn. 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.
Focusing on nineteenth-century attempts to locate the northwest
passage, the essays in this volume present this quest as a central
element of British culture.
These essays trace the history of the British search for the
Northwest Passage - the Arctic sea route connecting the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans - from the early modern era to the start of the
nineteenth century.
Features a collection of essays that focus on British travel
narratives from the seventeenth through to the nineteenth
centuries. This work investigates how the early explorers' sense of
self was destabilised by encounters with the Other.
Focusing on nineteenth-century attempts to locate the northwest
passage, the essays in this volume present this quest as a central
element of British culture.
These essays trace the history of the British search for the
Northwest Passage - the Arctic sea route connecting the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans - from the early modern era to the start of the
nineteenth century.
Poverty and precarity have gained a new societal and political
presence in the twenty-first century's advanced economies. This is
reflected in cultural production, which this book discusses for a
wide range of media and genres from the novel to reality
television. With a focus on Britain, its chapters divide their
attention between current representations of poverty and important
earlier narratives that have retained significant relevance today.
The book's contributions discuss the representation of social
suffering with attention to agencies of enunciation, ethical
implications of 'voice' and 'listening', limits of narratability,
the pitfalls of sensationalism, voyeurism and sentimentalism,
potentials and restrictions inherent in specific representational
techniques, modes and genres; cultural markets for poverty and
precarity. Overall, the book suggests that analysis of poverty
narratives requires an intersection of theoretical reflection and a
close reading of texts.
Poverty and precarity have gained a new societal and political
presence in the twenty-first century's advanced economies. This is
reflected in cultural production, which this book discusses for a
wide range of media and genres from the novel to reality
television. With a focus on Britain, its chapters divide their
attention between current representations of poverty and important
earlier narratives that have retained significant relevance today.
The book's contributions discuss the representation of social
suffering with attention to agencies of enunciation, ethical
implications of 'voice' and 'listening', limits of narratability,
the pitfalls of sensationalism, voyeurism and sentimentalism,
potentials and restrictions inherent in specific representational
techniques, modes and genres; cultural markets for poverty and
precarity. Overall, the book suggests that analysis of poverty
narratives requires an intersection of theoretical reflection and a
close reading of texts.
Features a collection of essays that focus on British travel
narratives from the seventeenth through to the nineteenth
centuries. This work investigates how the early explorers' sense of
self was destabilised by encounters with the Other.
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.
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