Jean Rhys's Historical Imagination: Reading and Writing the Creole (History; 49) - Softcover

Gregg, Veronica Marie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807845043 ISBN 13: 9780807845042

Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 1995

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Book by Gregg Veronica Marie

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Gregg . . . providYes provocative insights into the work and life of Jean Rhys."Choice" Very fine study.Sylvia Wynter, Stanford University Gregg . . . provid[es] provocative insights into the work and life of Jean Rhys."Choice" "Very fine study.Sylvia Wynter, Stanford University"

Reseña del editor:

As the foremost white West Indian writer of this century and author of the widely acclaimed novel Wide Sargasso Sea , Jean Rhys (1890-1979) has attracted much critical attention, most often from the perspective of gender analysis. Veronica Gregg extends our critical appreciation of Rhys by analyzing the complex relationship between Rhys's identity and the structures of her fiction, and she reveals the ways in which this relationship is connected to the history of British colonization of the West Indies. Gregg focuses on Rhys as a writer--a Creole woman analyzing the question of identity through literary investigations of race, gender, and colonialism. Arguing that history itself can be a site where different narratives collide and compete, she explores Rhys's rewriting of the historical discourses of the West Indies and of European canonical texts, such as Rhys's treatment of Jane Eyre in Wide Sargasso Sea . Gregg's analysis also reveals the precision with which Rhys crafted her work and her preoccupation with writing as performance.

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• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0807845043
• ISBN 13: 9780807845042
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 244