TY - BOOK ID - 3022692 TI - Colonialism and the modernist moment in the early novels of Jean Rhys PY - 2005 VL - *37 SN - 041597528X 9780415975285 9780203959190 9781135489007 9781135489076 9781135489144 9780415803410 PB - New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Women and literature KW - Imperialism in literature. KW - Colonies in literature. KW - Modernisme (Littérature) KW - Femmes et littérature KW - Impérialisme dans la littérature KW - Colonies dans la littérature KW - Rhys, Jean KW - Caribbean Area in literature KW - Caraïbes (Région) dans la littérature KW - Modernisme (Littérature) KW - Femmes et littérature KW - Impérialisme dans la littérature KW - Colonies dans la littérature KW - Caraïbes (Région) dans la littérature KW - RHYS (JEAN), 1894-1979 KW - MODERNISME (LITTERATURE) KW - FEMMES ET LITTERATURE KW - REGION CARAÏBE KW - IMPERIALISME DANS LA LITTERATURE KW - COLONIES DANS LA LITTERATURE KW - CRITIQUE ET INTERPRETATION KW - CARAÏBES KW - ANGLETERRE KW - DANS LA LITTERATURE KW - Colonies KW - Dans la littérature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3022692 AB - Colonial Rys: The Modernist Period presents Jean Rhys as an insightful colonial observer of the European modernist modernist moment, demonstrating that there is significant colonial content in all of her major early works, not only in the single, obviously colonial novel of the period. Whereas previous colonial studies focus more strictly on matters of style, such as Rhys's dialogism, in establishing the coloniality of what are called--in contradistinction to her "Caribbean"novels--her "European" novels, this study brings to light highly developed colonial polemics that are integral to the European texts, shaping their stories and plots. This reassessment of Rhys's European novels, which is based on close readings of the colonial allusions and contexts of the texts, points to a connection between them and the colonial novel of the period, namely that each of them addresses in some way the implications of colonial and imperial history, most particularly in terms of European culture and society. In arguing that Rhys is a keen diagnostician of and commentator on Euromodernist culture, this book points to a new dimension of her early writing, aligning her Conrad and Joyce as a significant colonial voice of Modernism, and making it possible to say, finally, that all of Rhys's early novels are vital precursors of Wide Sargasso Sea, that there is an unbroken colonial continuum in Rhys's writing from its beginning to its end. ER -