{"product_id":"the-worlding-of-jean-rhys-9780313310928","title":"The Worlding of Jean Rhys","description":"\u003cp\u003eBest known as the author of \u003ci\u003eWide Sargasso Sea, \u003c\/i\u003e Jean Rhys continues to draw growing amounts of popular and scholarly attention. This book explores Rhys's sense of world, the cross-cultural and the international in her novels, stories, and autobiographical writing. The volume situates Rhys's writing in relation to the Dominican cultural production with which she was familiar, to Rhys's family's history on the island, and to European ethnographic discourses about white creole people. Special attention is given to the political and ethical locations of Rhys's authorial and narrative voices with respect to discourses of empire, gender, sex, race, class, ethnicity, and desire. The book demonstrates that an historical reading of Rhys's work poses questions for a number of current theoretical approaches. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhere and how does Jean Rhys write herself, her fiction, and her characters into history? To address this question, Sue Thomas has conducted wide-ranging primary and original research to elucidate Rhys's sense of world, the cross-cultural and the international in her novels, stories, and autobiographical writing. She situates Rhys's writing in relation to the Dominican cultural production and traffic with which she was familiar, to Rhys's family's history on the island, and to European ethnographic discourses about white creole people. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn her reading of Rhys's fiction and autobiographical texts she analyzes the political and ethical locations of Rhys's authorial and narrative voices with respect to discourses of empire, gender, sex, race, class, ethnicity, and desire that shaped Rhys's sense of the materiality of the world. In doing so, Thomas draws out new dimensions of the racial, ethnic, and sexual formation of Rhys's modernism. As a result, she demonstrates that an historical reading of Rhys's work poses questions for a number of current theoretical approaches.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sue Thomas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Praeger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/30\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Contributions to the Study of World Literature #96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.48h x 6.40w x 0.89d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780313310928","brand":"Praeger","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42710655008905,"sku":"9780313310928","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_d611d869-aae8-4ab6-a025-927648436a8e.jpg?v=1719540995","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-worlding-of-jean-rhys-9780313310928","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}