Transnational Jean Rhys

Juliana Lopoukhine is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, France.Frédéric Regard is Professor of English Literature at the University of Paris-Sorbonne, France.Kerry-Jane Wallart is Professor in Black Atlantic Studies at the University of Orléans, France.

• List of contributorsForewordJudith Raiskin (University of Oregon, USA)AcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroduction: On reading Rhys transnationallyJuliana Lopoukhine (University of Paris-Sorbonne, France), Frédéric Regard (University of Paris-Sorbonne, France) and Kerry-Jane Wallart (University of Orléans, France)Part 1 Lines of transmission: Rhys's continental transculturalism1. The white Creole in Paris: Joséphine, Colette and Jean Rhys's Quartet and Good Morning, MidnightElaine Savory (New School, USA)2. Strange defeat: Good Morning, Midnight and Marc Bloch’s L’Étrange défaiteScott McCracken (Queen Mary University of London, UK)3. ‘Also I do like the moderns’: Reading Rhys's readingAndrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University, UK)4. ‘Parler de soi’: Jean Rhys and the uses of life writingSimon Cooke (University of Edinburgh, UK)5. Jean Rhys and Indonesia: A lineage and alienageChris GoGwilt (Fordham University, USA)Part 2 Lines of flight: Rhys’s transnational legacy6. Jean Rhys in Australian neo-Victorian and Great House imaginariesSue Thomas (LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia)7. Twisted lines in Caribbean postcolonial Modernism: Jean Rhys and Edward Kamau BrathwaiteFrançoise Clary (Rouen University, France)8. Dressing and addressing the self: Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and the cultural politics of self-fashioningDenise deCaires Narain (University of Sussex, UK)9. 'Competing conversations': Voice and identity in Caryl Phillips’s A View of the Empire at SunsetKathie Birat (University of Lorraine, France)10. 'A journey into the familiar underworld': Revisiting Jean Rhys in Caryl Phillips’s A View of the Empire at Sunset Catherine Lanone (Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris, France)11. ‘The small things that they’ve not been able to talk about’: An interview with Caryl Phillips about his novel A View of the Empire at Sunset (2018) Kerry-Jane WallartBibliographyIndex

An international collection, featuring many of the experts in the field, which removes Rhys's texts from previous categorizations and takes new transnational and transcultural routes to account for this 'unplaceable' writer. An illuminating reappraisal of her work, of its enduring power and relevance to today's globalized world.