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Jean Rhys’s Plantation Modernism
2023Abstract Chapter 5 reads Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark (1934) in light of Simon Lewis and Mark Maslin’s account of the Anthropocene, which dates the epoch as starting at the time of the ‘Columbian Exchange’ of biotas following the colonization of the Americas. On the surface, Rhys’s novel seems ill-equipped to register the environmental
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2020
Jean Rhys’s Paris-based work is a prime example of cross-channel modernism in cultural and biographical terms, but it is also testament to the construction of a distinct style, which relies as much on testimony and the presumed authenticity of lived experience as on the wearing of literary masks.
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Jean Rhys’s Paris-based work is a prime example of cross-channel modernism in cultural and biographical terms, but it is also testament to the construction of a distinct style, which relies as much on testimony and the presumed authenticity of lived experience as on the wearing of literary masks.
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2018
Jean Rhys was a Dominican novelist and short-story writer. Her career can be divided into two main periods: her modernist fiction of the 1920s and 1930s, which depicts the bohemian demi-monde in Europe of the time as experienced by vulnerable female protagonists on the margins of respectability, and her later work, which came after a long hiatus with ...
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Jean Rhys was a Dominican novelist and short-story writer. Her career can be divided into two main periods: her modernist fiction of the 1920s and 1930s, which depicts the bohemian demi-monde in Europe of the time as experienced by vulnerable female protagonists on the margins of respectability, and her later work, which came after a long hiatus with ...
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Rhys, Jean (eigtl. Ella Gwendolen Rhys oder Rees Williams)
1998Lange vernachlassigt, gehort Rhys dank des Engagements feministischer und postkolonialer Kritiker seit den 80er Jahren zu den bekanntesten Autorinnen in englischer Sprache. Wahrend fruher offenbar die bitter-melancholische Grundstimmung ihrer aktionsarmen Prosa und deren Themen als wenig unterhaltsam galten, sind es heute gerade die Frauenschicksale ...
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1999
Best known as the author ofWide Sargasso Sea,Jean Rhys continues to draw growing amounts of popular and scholarly attention. This book explores Rhys's sense of world, the cross-cultural and the international in her novels, stories, and autobiographical writing.
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Best known as the author ofWide Sargasso Sea,Jean Rhys continues to draw growing amounts of popular and scholarly attention. This book explores Rhys's sense of world, the cross-cultural and the international in her novels, stories, and autobiographical writing.
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