Muddy death: fate, femininity and mourning in Jean Rhys's Good Morning Midnight
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Chapter Title | Muddy death: fate, femininity and mourning in Jean Rhys's Good Morning Midnight |
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Book Chapter Category | Edited book (chapter) |
ERA Publisher ID | 3126 |
Book Title | Rites of passage in postcolonial women's writing |
Authors | |
Author | Gildersleeve, Jessica |
Editors | Wisker, Gina and Dodgson-Katiyo, Pauline |
Page Range | 227-244 |
Series | Cross/Cultures |
Number of Pages | 18 |
Year | 2010 |
Publisher | Rodopi |
Place of Publication | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
ISBN | 9789042029354 |
9789042029361 | |
Web Address (URL) | http://www.rodopi.nl/functions/search.asp?BookId=CC+123 |
Abstract | In this essay, I seek to discover and analyze the core of female consciousness as expressed in the last of Rhys's four early novels, Good Morning, Midnight. These four texts, published between 1928 and 1939, are often viewed together, dismissed by critics as experimental and developmental, and as not yet expressing the consummate fictional voice Rhys found in her 1966 novel, Wide Sargasso Sea. Good Morning, Midnight reveals the sophistication of her early conceptualization of female identity, |
Keywords | womens role; British history; suffragist movement |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 470530. Stylistics and textual analysis |
440599. Gender studies not elsewhere classified | |
470599. Literary studies not elsewhere classified | |
Public Notes | © Editions Rodopi B.V. Permanent restricted access to published version in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
Byline Affiliations | Griffith University |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q21yy/muddy-death-fate-femininity-and-mourning-in-jean-rhys-s-good-morning-midnight
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