Feminism, Literary Theory, General & Miscellaneous Literary Criticism, Latin American & Caribbean Literature, Sex Role, English Literature
Jean Rhys
Helen Carr
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Overview
Neglected and forgotten for many years, the arresting, elliptical novels written by the Domenican-born Jean Rhys are now widely acclaimed. Her last and most famous novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, her retelling of Jane Eyre, is a central text for the imaginative re-examination of gender and colonial power relations. Helen Carrs account draws on both recent feminist and post-colonial theory, and places Rhyss work in relation to modernist and postmodernist writing. Whilst all Rhyss novels are autobiographical, it is a mistake, Carr argues, to see them simply in individual terms: Rhys uses the material of her own life to structure a devastating critique of the greed and cruelty of the Establishment world, both of Europe and of Empire. This new edition considers the growing body of critical appreciation of Jean Rhys.Book Details
Published
June 1, 2011
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers, Limited
Pages
128
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780746311639