Wide Sargasso Sea at 50 [1st ed. 2020] 3030282228, 9783030282226
This book revisits Jean Rhys’s ground-breaking 1966 novel to explore its cultural and artistic influence in the areas of
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Table of contents :
Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction to Wide Sargasso Sea at 50
Part I: Inspirations and Influences
Chapter 2: Interview with Caryl Phillips
Chapter 3: Interview with Chrisila Maida
Chapter 4: Infamous Daughters: A Capsule Collection Inspired by Wide Sargasso Sea
Works Cited
Chapter 5: Wide Sargasso Sea Then and Now: Reading Jean Rhys à la mode
Fashion, the “Restless Image”
1914 (“Too Much Blue … the Flowers Too Red”)
1966 (“Dreamers of the Golden Dream”)
2018 (the “Age of Anger”)
Works Cited
Chapter 6: After Mrs Rochester: On Portraying Jean Rhys Onstage
Chapter 7: Interview with James Thackara
Part II: Framing the Text
Chapter 8: Who Writes for the Trees?: Wide Sargasso Sea, the Dominican Forest, and Its Parrots
Works Cited
Chapter 9: Jean Rhys Getting the “Feel” of the West Indies in Wide Sargasso Sea
The “Feel” of the West Indies
Imagining “Magic”
Works Cited
Chapter 10: “Broken Parts”: Wide Sargasso Sea and the Poetics of Caribbean Modernism
Caribbean Modernism, Modernity, and Rhys’s Early Novels
Before, After, and Beyond Windrush
“Broken Parts of an Enormous Heritage”
“In Her Own Darkness”
Works Cited
Part III: Sex and Gender
Chapter 11: #Metoo in Wide Sargasso Sea
Works Cited
Chapter 12: The Lineaments of Life and Death: Desire, Sexuality and Manhood in Wide Sargasso Sea
Works Cited
Chapter 13: Vulnerability and Authenticity: The Wisdom of Wide Sargasso Sea
Works Cited
Part IV: In Dialogue with Wide Sargasso Sea
Chapter 14: “I so wanted to hand Emma a copy of Wide Sargasso Sea”: Wide Sargasso Sea and Contemporary Re-workings of Jane Eyre
Works Cited
Chapter 15: Encryption as Transmission: The Secret Gardens of Wide Sargasso Sea
Works Cited
Chapter 16: Burning Down Her Master’s House (Again): Marlon James Responds to Jean Rhys
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction to Wide Sargasso Sea at 50
Part I: Inspirations and Influences
Chapter 2: Interview with Caryl Phillips
Chapter 3: Interview with Chrisila Maida
Chapter 4: Infamous Daughters: A Capsule Collection Inspired by Wide Sargasso Sea
Works Cited
Chapter 5: Wide Sargasso Sea Then and Now: Reading Jean Rhys à la mode
Fashion, the “Restless Image”
1914 (“Too Much Blue … the Flowers Too Red”)
1966 (“Dreamers of the Golden Dream”)
2018 (the “Age of Anger”)
Works Cited
Chapter 6: After Mrs Rochester: On Portraying Jean Rhys Onstage
Chapter 7: Interview with James Thackara
Part II: Framing the Text
Chapter 8: Who Writes for the Trees?: Wide Sargasso Sea, the Dominican Forest, and Its Parrots
Works Cited
Chapter 9: Jean Rhys Getting the “Feel” of the West Indies in Wide Sargasso Sea
The “Feel” of the West Indies
Imagining “Magic”
Works Cited
Chapter 10: “Broken Parts”: Wide Sargasso Sea and the Poetics of Caribbean Modernism
Caribbean Modernism, Modernity, and Rhys’s Early Novels
Before, After, and Beyond Windrush
“Broken Parts of an Enormous Heritage”
“In Her Own Darkness”
Works Cited
Part III: Sex and Gender
Chapter 11: #Metoo in Wide Sargasso Sea
Works Cited
Chapter 12: The Lineaments of Life and Death: Desire, Sexuality and Manhood in Wide Sargasso Sea
Works Cited
Chapter 13: Vulnerability and Authenticity: The Wisdom of Wide Sargasso Sea
Works Cited
Part IV: In Dialogue with Wide Sargasso Sea
Chapter 14: “I so wanted to hand Emma a copy of Wide Sargasso Sea”: Wide Sargasso Sea and Contemporary Re-workings of Jane Eyre
Works Cited
Chapter 15: Encryption as Transmission: The Secret Gardens of Wide Sargasso Sea
Works Cited
Chapter 16: Burning Down Her Master’s House (Again): Marlon James Responds to Jean Rhys
Works Cited
Index
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