Transnational Jean Rhys: Lines of Transmission, Lines of Flight - Paperback
by Juliana Lopoukhine (Editor), Frédéric Regard (Editor), Kerry-Jane Wallart (Editor)
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.
Juliana Lopoukhine is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, France.
Frédéric Regard is Professor of English Literature at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, France. Kerry-Jane Wallart is Professor in Black Atlantic Studies at the University of Orléans, France.Made with care and unconditionally loved by our customers, this signature bestseller exceeds all expectations.
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