Emery, Jean Rhys at "World's End".
Novels of Colonial and Sexual Exile. (Latin American Studies. Literature).
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- Condition : very good, clean, minimal signs of wear, dust jacket rubbed with a few small marginal tears.
Beautiful dedication from the author, Iowa City April 1991.
The Caribbean islands have long been an uneasy meeting place between indigenous peoples, white European settlers, and black slave populations. The tense oppositions of Caribbean culture - colonial versus indigenous, white versus black, male conqueror versus female subject - provide powerful themes and elicit complex narrative experiences in the fiction of Dominican-born novelist Jean Rhys.
In this pioneering study, Mary Lou Emery focuses on Rhys's treatment of these oppositions, using a Caribbean cultural perspective to replace the predominantly European aesthetic, moral, and psychological norms that have served to misinterpret and sometimes devalue Rhys's writing. Emery examines Rhys's five novels, beginning with Wide Sargasso Sea, the most explicitly Caribbean in its setting, its participation in the culminating decades of the West Indian literary birth, and, most importantly, its subversive transformation of European concepts of character. From a socio-cultural perspective, she argues convincingly that the early novels - Journey into Darkness, Quartet, After Leaving Mr Mackenzie and Good Morning, Midnight - should be read as emerging Caribbean novels, written in a tense dialogue with European modernism. Building on this thesis, she reveals how the apparent passivity, masochism or silence of Rhys's female protagonists results from their double marginalisation as women and as subject peoples. She also explores how Rhys's women seek alternative identities in dreamed, magically realised or chosen communities. These findings offer important insights into literary modernism, Caribbean fiction and female identity formation.
| Condition | Used - Very Good |
|---|---|
| Language | United Kingdom |
| Illustrated | No |
| Publicaton Date | Jan 1, 1990 |
| Year | 1990 |
| Author / Cartographer / Photographer | Emery Mary Lou |
| Editor | University of Texas Press |
| First edition | Yes |
| Signed edition | Yes |
| Signed binding | No |
| Armorial binding | No |
| Binding / Format | Cartonnage |
| Size | 23,5 x 16,5 cm |
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