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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Jean Rhys"”.
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The café in modernist literature: Wyndham Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Rhys
… this order: Wyndham Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, and Jean Rhys. Contextualised by the café’s fundamental role in the lives of artists, the creation of art, and the great art movements throughout history, the thesis traces the ways in which the novelists engage imaginatively with this important social …
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Expatriation and Exile as Themes in the Fiction of Jean Rhys
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Identities displaced and misplaced: aspects of postcolonial subjectivity in the novels of Jean Rhys
… of female subjectivity in the characters of Jean Rhys’s five novels: Quartet (1928), After Leaving Mr Mackenzie, (1930), Voyage in the Dark (1934), Good Morning, Midnight (1939), and Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). These aspects are informed by race, gender and class, unique to each of the novels, …
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Forays into the attic: The postcolonial fiction of Jean Rhys and J. M. Coetzee
"The dissertation examines the writing of Jean Rhys and J. M. Coetzee and its postcolonial interventions in modernism and postmodernism. Chapter I, ""The Postcolonial Sensibilities of the Native Alien,"" focuses on current postcolonial theoretical debates on resistance and authenticity; it then …
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The novel ''Another Country'' and “Miss Jessie Isn’t All There”: Jean Rhys, spaces, and difference
… Isn’t All There”: Spaces and Difference in Jean Rhys’, consists of an essay addressing the role of spaces in the interwar fiction of Jean Rhys. Another Country follows Leela, a recent graduate, as she lives in Paris, then London, then Bombay. The cities form a backdrop to a journey through …
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Displacement and the text: exploring otherness in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, Maryse Condé's La migration des coeurs, Rosario Ferré's The House on the Lagoon, and Tina De Rosa's Paper Fish
… each one written by a different female author: Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, Maryse Condé's La migration des cœurs, Rosario Ferré's The House on the Lagoon, and Tina De Rosa's Paper Fish. I identify the causes of the protagonists' displacement, and analyze the actions they take to make …
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Mad or Uncontrollable? Reading Female Madness in Three Gothic Texts
… female madness in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, and Isabel Allende’s “If You Touched My Heart.” Drawing on theories of socially constructed disability, it argues that Bertha, Antoinette, and Hortensia are framed as “mad women” not through inherent pathology, but …
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Truth and strangers in Jean Rhys's novels : Good morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea
… Good Morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. These novels portray marginal women who are excluded from the very community which has created them. Rhys illustrates how the need to sustain an artificial order gives rise to a psychic fragmentation which is typical of the decentered …
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Inscrutable Islands: Narrative Difficulty and the Rhetoric of Creolization in Twentieth-Century Caribbean Novels
… the novels of Patrick Chamoiseau, Erna Brodber, Jean Rhys, Maryse Condé, Édouard Glissant, and Wilson Harris, difficult narrative forms can instead entrench social divisions and hierarchies.</p>
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Mémoire et identité dans les réécritures caribéennes : Wide Sargasso Sea et La Migration des Coeurs
<p>This thesis will study creole identity in Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), prequel of Jane Eyre, as well as in Maryse Condé's La Migration des Coeurs (1995), a rewriting of Wuthering Heights. I argue that both novels create a new creole identity by conversing with their original texts as well …
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Murdoch, Woolf, Rhys, and the Ethics of the Resistance to Narrative Closure
… closure in the novels of Virginia Woolf and Jean Rhys. Murdoch's configuration of resistance to narrative form provides a grammatical and lexical framework for uncovering and foregrounding the specifically ethical investments Woolf and Rhys have in resisting narrative closure. This project …
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Monstrous 'Others': The Legacy of Race, Hybridity, and Intersectionality in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
… the characters: Victor LaValle’s Destroyer, Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, and Maryse Condé’s Windward Heights. The three twentieth- and twenty-first-century reimaginings of these characters—a prequel, a sequel, and a remake—are compelling enough individually to demand close study of the way …
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After Fragmentation: Mental Health and Resilience in Modernist Women’s Literature
… Woolf, Nella Larsen, Emily Holmes Coleman, and Jean Rhys drew on fragmentation as a narrative and aesthetic strategy in fiction between 1925 and 1939 through their use of ellipses, omissions, and experimental prose, enabling them to portray posttraumatic subjectivity while also critiquing …
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Decolonising the body in Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark and Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy
… novel Voyage in the Dark by the British author Jean Rhys, born in Dominica; and Lucy by the Antiguan-American writer Jamaica Kincaid, published in 1990. Both novels tell the stories of young women from the Caribbean who leave their islands to work in Western metropolises (London and New York, …
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Otherwordly modernism: magic, mediums, and coloniality
… and William Butler Yeats, Pamela Colman Smith, Jean Rhys, and Mina Loy, I demonstrate how these authors and artists seek “otherworlds” to revitalize their lives and art but how their conceptualizations of and attempts to reach such places depend on asymmetrical and extractive relationships to …
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Tales of (Dis)connection: Moving Through an Interconnected Europe in the Short Story, 1880–1930
… on short stories by Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, Jean Rhys, Aldous Huxley and D. H. Lawrence, this dissertation argues that the short story form is ideally suited to expressing concerns about precisely the opposite occurring. Writing between 1880 and 1930, Hardy, Joyce, Rhys, Huxley and Lawrence …
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Adrift at home: National belonging and narrative form in the rooms of twentieth-century British fiction
… Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Bowen, J.G. Farrell, Jean Rhys, Sam Selvon, Doris Lessing, and W.G. Sebald, I analyze how representations of destabilized interior spaces are mobilized on behalf of larger arguments about imperial politics in which the relatively stable framework of national identity in …