Jean Rhys - Savory, Elaine (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-296) and index
1 - Living on both sides, living to write -- - 2 - Registering protest: The Left Bank and Quartet -- - 3 - A Caribbean woman lost in Europe?: After Leaving Mr. MacKenzie and the question of gender -- - 4 - Writing colour, writing Caribbean: Voyage in the Dark and the politics of colour -- - 5 - Dangerous spirit, bitterly amused: Good Morning, Midnight -- - 6 - People in and out of place: spatial arrangements in Wide Sargasso Sea -- - 7 - Brief encounters: Rhys and the craft of the short story -- - 8 - Performance arts: the theatre of autobiography and the role of the personal essay -- - 9 - The Helen of our wars: cultural politics and Jean Rhys criticism
"Jean Rhys has long been central to debates in feminist, modernist, Caribbean, British and post-colonial writing. Elaine Savory's study, which refers widely to Rhys criticism and goes beyond it, is a critical reading of Rhys's entire ouevre, including the stories and autobiography, and is informed by recently released unpublished manuscripts by Rhys. Designed both for the serious scholar and those unfamiliar with Rhys's 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."--Jacket