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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Haliloǧlu, Nagihan
Titre(s) : Narrating from the margins [Texte imprimé] : self-representation of female and colonial subjectivities in Jean Rhys's novels / Nagihan Haliloǧlu
Publication : Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2011
Description matérielle : 212 p. ; 24 cm
Collection : Cross-cultures : readings in post-colonial literatures and cultures in English ; 135
Lien à la collection : Cross/cultures (Amsterdam)
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-200) and index
Texte remanié de : Thesis Ph. D. : Heildeberg (Allemagne), Université d'Heildeberg
: 2009
"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."--Publisher's website
Sujet(s) : Rhys, Jean (1890-1979) -- Thèmes, motifs
Conscience de soi -- Dans la littérature
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789042033665. - ISBN 9042033665 (rel.). - ISBN 9789401200660 (ebk.). - ISBN
9401200661 (ebk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42527895f
Notice n° :
FRBNF42527895
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