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In Narrating from the Margins , Nagihan Haliloğlu casts a discerning look at Jean Rhys’s protagonists and the ways in which they engage in self-narration. The book offers a close reading of Rhys’s novels, with particular attention to the links between identity construction and self-narration, in a modernist and postcolonial idiom. It draws attention to particular subject-categories that Rhys’s protagonists fall into, such as the amateur and the white Creole, and delineates narrating personas such as the mad witch and the zombie, to explore aspects of de-essentalization, narrative agency, and dysnarrativia. The way in which Rhys’s protagonists engage in self-narration reveals the close link between race and gender, and how both are contained by similar metaphors, or how, indeed, they become metaphors for each other. The narrators are defined in relation to their place in the ‘holy English family’ and how they transgress the rules of that family to become ‘exiles’. The study explores the ways in which the self-narrator responds when her narrative is obstructed by society; such as creating a community of stories in which her own makes sense, and/or resorting to third-person narration.

Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature. --- Self-consciousness in literature --- Rhys, Jean --- Rhys, Jean. --- Williams, Ella Gwendolen Rees --- Rees Williams, Ella Gwendolen --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Jean Rhys has long been central to debates in feminist, modernist, Caribbean, British and postcolonial writing. Elaine Savory's study, first published in 1999, incorporates and modifies previous critical approaches and is a critical reading of Rhys's entire oeuvre, including the stories and autobiography, and is informed by Rhys's own manuscripts. Designed both for the serious scholar on Rhys and those unfamiliar with her writing, Savory's book insists on the importance of a Caribbean-centred approach to Rhys, and shows how this context profoundly affects her literary style. Informed by contemporary arguments on race, gender, class and nationality, Savory explores Rhys's stylistic innovations - her use of colours, her exploitation of the trope of performance, her experiments with creative non-fiction and her incorporation of the metaphysical into her texts. This study offers a comprehensive account of the life and work of this most complex and enigmatic of writers.

West Indies --- Williams, Ella Gwendolen Rees --- Rees Williams, Ella Gwendolen --- Women and literature --- Literature --- History --- Rhys, Jean --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Caribbean Area --- In literature. --- Arts and Humanities --- Criticism and interpretation --- Rhys, Jean (1894-1979) --- Critique et interprétation

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Using a theoretical approach and a critical summary, combining the perspectives in the postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis and narratology with the tools of hermeneutics and deconstruction, this book argues that Jean Rhys's work can be subsumed under a poetics of cultural identity and hybridity. It also demonstrates the validity of the concept of hybridization as the expression of identity formation; the cultural boundaries variability; the opposition self-otherness, authenticity-fiction, trans-textuality; and the relevance of an integrated approach to multiple cultural identities as an encountering and negotiation space between writer, reader and work. The complexity of ontological and epistemological representation involves an interdisciplinary approach that blends a literary interpretive approach to social, anthropological, cultural and historical perspectives. The book concludes that in the author's fictional universe, cultural identity is represented as a general human experience that transcends the specific conditionalities of geographical contexts, history and culture. The construction of identity by Jean Rhys is represented by the dichotomy of marginal identity and the identification with a human ideal designed either by the hegemonic discourse or metropolitan culture or by the dominant ideology. The identification with a pattern of cultural authenticity, of racial, ethnic, or national purism is presented as a purely destructive cultural projection, leading to the creation of a static universe in opposition to the diversity of human feelings and aspirations. Jean Rhys's fictional discourse lies between "the anxiety of authorship" and "the anxiety of influence" and shows the postcolonial era of uprooting and migration in which the national ownership diluted the image of a "home" ambiguous located at the boundary between a myth of origins and a myth of becoming. The relationship between the individual and socio-cultural space is thus shaped in a dual hybrid position.

English Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Rhys, Jean --- Williams, Ella Gwendolen Rees --- Rees Williams, Ella Gwendolen --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Rhys, Jean. --- Anthropology. --- Social Sciences. --- Sociology. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. --- Hybridity, Cultural identity, Caribbean Diaspora, Jean Rhys's writings, Postcolonial literature. --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Human beings --- Primitive societies

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It's fatal making a fuss ... . -Jean Rhys, Quartet. Cathleen Maslen's Ferocious Things: Jean Rhys and the Politics of Women's Melancholia closely engages with the most obvious theme of Rhys's writing: the speaking and inscription of feminine anguish. Maslen resists easy generalisations with respect to Rhys's portrayal of women's psychic pain, attending carefully to the nuances of sexual, cultural and ethnic displacement which inform the suffering of Rhys's protagonists. Acknowledging the m...

Rhys, Jean --- --Critique et interprétation --- Depression, Mental, in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Williams, Ella Gwendolen Rees --- Rees Williams, Ella Gwendolen --- Criticism and interpretation.

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In a book that compares Virginia Woolf's writing with that of the novelist, actress, and feminist activist Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952), Molly Hite explores the fascinating connections between Woolf's aversion to women's "pleading a cause" in fiction and her narrative technique of complicating, minimizing, or omitting tonal cues. Hite shows how A Room of One's Own, Mrs. Dalloway, and The Voyage Out borrow from and implicitly criticize Robins's work.Hite presents and develops the concept of narrative tone as a means to enrich and complicate our readings of Woolf's modernist novels. In Woolf's Ambiguities, she argues that the greatest formal innovation in Woolf's fiction is the muting, complicating, or effacing of textual pointers guiding how readers feel and make ethical judgments about characters and events. Much of Woolf's narrative prose, Hite proposes, thus refrains from endorsing a single position, not only adding value ambiguity to the cognitive ambiguity associated with modernist fiction generally, but explicitly rejecting the polemical intent of feminist novelists in the generation preceding her own. Hite also points out that Woolf reconsidered her rejection of polemical fiction later in her career. In the unfinished draft of her "essay-novel" The Pargiters, Woolf created a brilliant new narrative form allowing her to make unequivocal value judgments.

English literature --- Thematology --- anno 1900-1999 --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Narration (Rhétorique) --- Narrative writing --- Verhaal (Retoriek) --- English fiction --- Feminism and literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- History and criticism --- 20th century --- Rhys, Jean --- Technique --- Lessing, Doris May --- Walker, Alice --- Atwood, Margaret Eleanor --- Atwood, Margaret, --- Lessing, Doris, --- Walker, Alice, --- Technique. --- Williams, Ella Gwendolen Rees --- Rees Williams, Ella Gwendolen --- Literature: history & criticism