8. The Empire of Affect: Reading Rhys after Postcolonial Theory

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of Figures v
4. Acknowledgements vi
5. Notes on Contributors ix
6. Introduction: The Haunting of Jean Rhys 1
7. PART I Rhys and Modernist Aesthetics
8. 1. Jean Rhys and Katherine Mansfield Writing the ‘sixth act’ 21
9. 2. Making a Scene: Rhys and the Aesthete at Mid-Century 40
10. 3. On the Veranda: Jean Rhys’s Material Modernism 59
11. PART II Postcolonial Rhys
12. 4. Jean Rhys’s Environmental Language: Oppositions, Dialogues and Silences 85
13. 5. Caribbean Formations in the Rhysian Corpus 107
14. 6. ‘From Black to Red’: Jean Rhys’s Use of Dress in Wide 123
15. 7. The Discourses of Jean Rhys: Resistance, Ambivalence and Creole Indeterminacy 146
16. PART III Affective Rhys
17. 8. The Empire of Affect: Reading Rhys after Postcolonial Theory 171
18. 9. ‘The feelings are always mine’: Chronic Shame and Humiliated Rage in Jean Rhys’s Fiction 190
19. 10. ‘Upholstered Ghosts’: Jean Rhys’s Posthuman Imaginary 209
20. Bibliography 228
21. Index 238