Neglected and forgotten for many years, the arresting, elliptical novels written by Dominican-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 Carr’s account draws on both recent feminism and postcolonial theory, and places Rhys’s work in relation to modernist and postmodernist writing. First published in 1996, Helen Carr’s revised edition takes full cognizance of the wide critical attention paid to Rhys since that date.
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Helen Carr’s account draws on both recent feminism and postcolonial theory, and places Jean Rhys’s work in relation to modernist and postmodernist writing.
Writers and Their Work, relaunched in 1994 in association with the British Council, won immediate acclaim for its publication of brief but rigorous critical examinations of the works of distinguished writers and schools of writing.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780746311639
Publisert
2012-10-01
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Liverpool University Press
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
G, UF, UU, 01, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
128

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Helen Carr is Professor of English at Goldsmiths College, University of London.