Jean Rhys's Tropographies: unmappable identity and the tropical landscape in Wide Sargasso Sea and selected short fiction
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Article Title | Jean Rhys's Tropographies: unmappable identity and the tropical landscape in Wide Sargasso Sea and selected short fiction |
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ERA Journal ID | 41572 |
Article Category | Article |
Authors | |
Author | Gildersleeve, Jessica |
Journal Title | eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics |
Journal Citation | 10, pp. 32-38 |
Number of Pages | 7 |
Year | 2011 |
Publisher | James Cook University |
Place of Publication | Townsville, Australia |
ISSN | 1448-2940 |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.jcu.edu.au/etropic/ET10/Gildersleeve.pdf |
Abstract | This essay seeks to trouble the traditional understanding of Jean Rhys's 'homelessness' through a re-examination of the way in which the uncertain identities of her fiction are tied to their geographical settings. This works towards a reading of Rhys's narratives as 'literature of the tropics,' describing not only the landscape within which and from which so many of them operate, but a literature of the unrecognised, the unmapped. In this essay I seek to complicate traditional readings of Rhys's work that reassert her liminality and sense of unbelonging to propose that it is, paradoxically, the affinity of her work with the unassimilable tropics that produces this 'outsider status.' |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 470599. Literary studies not elsewhere classified |
520599. Social and personality psychology not elsewhere classified | |
440699. Human geography not elsewhere classified | |
Public Notes | Refereed Proceedings of the Second Tropics of the Imagination Conference, James Cook University Cairns, 31st October - 1st November 2011. |
Byline Affiliations | Griffith University |
Event | 2nd Tropics of the Imagination Conference 2011 |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
Event Details | 2nd Tropics of the Imagination Conference 2011 Parent Tropics Of The Imagination Event Date 31 Oct 2011 to end of 01 Nov 2011 Event Location Cairns, Australia |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q21y8/jean-rhys-s-tropographies-unmappable-identity-and-the-tropical-landscape-in-wide-sargasso-sea-and-selected-short-fiction
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