Breaking the Master Narrative: Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS ix
3. PREFACE xi
4. PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii
5. INTRODUCTION
6. Contexts and Continuities: An Introduction to Women's Experimental Fiction in English 3
7. PERSPECTIVES
8. Illiterations 55
9. Male Signature, Female Aesthetic: The Gender Politics of Experimental Writing 72
10. FIRST GENERATION: BEFORE 1930
11. Dorothy Richardson Versus the Novvle 85
12. Woolfenstein 99
13. Second generation: 1930 - 1960
14. Breaking the Master Narrative: Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea 117
15. The Radical Narrative of Djuna Barnes's Nigbtwood 129
16. Jane Bowles: Experiment as Character 140
17. H.D.'s Fiction: Convolutions to Clarity 148
18. The Music of the Womb: Anaïs Nin's "Feminine" Writing 161
19. THIRD GENERATION: AFTER 1960
20. "Stepping-Stones Into the Dark": Redundancy and Generation in Christine Brooke-Rose's Amalgamemnon 177
21. Marguerite Young's Miss Macintosh, My Darling: Liquescence as Form 188
22. Fiction as Language Game: The Hermeneutic Parables of Lydia Davis and Maxine Chernoff 199
23. The Artists of Hell: Kathy Acker and "Punk" Aesthetics 215
24. Voices in the Head: Style and Consciousness in the Fiction of Ann Quin 231
25. One Hundred and Three Chapters of Little Times: Collapsed and Transfigured Moments in the Fiction of Barbara Guest 240
26. The Sense of Unending: Joyce Carol Oates's Bellefleur as an Experiment in Feminine Storytelling 250
27. LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
28. Experimental Novels? Yes, But Perhaps "Otherwise": Nathalie Sarraute, Monique Wittig 267
29. The Clandestine Fictions of Marguerite Duras 284
30. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 299
31. SELECTED LIST OF WOMEN EXPERIMENTALISTS 301
32. INDEX 319