Narrating from the margins : self-representation of female and colonial subjectivities in Jean Rhys's novels
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Narrating from the margins : self-representation of female and colonial subjectivities in Jean Rhys's novels
（Cross/cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English, 135）
Rodopi, 2011
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The author's revised dissertation (Ph.D.)-- University of Heidelberg, 2009
Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-200) and index
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Description
In Narrating from the Margins, Nagihan Haliloglu 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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Concern for Self-Possession
Self-Narration: Conditions, Representations, and Consequences
The Female Self in Rhys and the Category of the Amateur
Positioning Rhys's Heroines within Colonial Relations
Narrative Responses to 'Exile from The English Family'
White Female Colonial Self-Articulation: Narrative of Displacement in Voyage in the Dark
Colonial Creatures: The Community of Life-Stories in Good Morning, Midnight
Quartet: The Making of the Amateur and Third-Person Self-Narration
Intersubjectivity and Self-Arrangements in After Leaving Mr Mackenzie
Membership in the Holy English Family and Mad-Witch Narration in Wide Sargasso Sea
Conclusion: Self-Narratives for the Chorus Girl and the Horrid Colonial
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