TRANSNATIONAL JEAN RHYS lines of transmission, lines of flight;lines of transmission, lines of flight

This volume makes a new investigation into 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 her 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. Cover Contents Notes on Contributors Foreword Judith Raiskin Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: On reading Rhys transnationally Juliana Lopoukhine, Frédéric Regard and Kerry-Jane Wallart Part One Lines of transmission: Rhys’s continental transculturalism 1 The white Creole in Paris: Joséphine, Colette and Jean Rhys’s Quartet and Good Morning, Midnight Elaine Savory 2 Strange defeat: Good Morning, Midnight and Marc Bloch’s L’Étrange Défaite Scott McCracken 3 ‘Also I do like the moderns’: Reading Rhys’s reading Andrew Thacker 4 ‘Parler de soi’: Jean Rhys and the uses of life writing Simon Cooke 5 Jean Rhys and Indonesia: A lineage and alineage Christopher GoGwilt Part Two Lines of flight: Rhys’s transnational legacy 6 Jean Rhys in Australian neo-Victorian and Great House imaginaries Sue Thomas 7 Twisted lines in Caribbean postcolonial Modernism: Jean Rhys and Edward Kamau Brathwaite Françoise Clary 8 Dressing and addressing the self: Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and the cultural politics of self-fashioning Denise deCaires Narain 9 ‘Competing conversations’: Voice and identity in Caryl Phillips’s A View of the Empire at Sunset Kathie Birat 10 ‘A journey into the familiar underworld’: Revisiting Jean Rhys in Caryl Phillips’s A View of the Empire at Sunset Catherine Lanone 11 ‘The small things that they’ve not been able to talk about’: An interview with Caryl Phillips about his novel A View of the Empire at Sunset (2018) Kerry-Jane Wallart Bibliography Index 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. "A reassessment of Jean Rhys's literary cosmopolitanism in terms of transnationalism and her literary influences, including an interview with novelist Caryl Phillips"-- Provided by publisher