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 contributors
Foreword
Judith Raiskin (University of Oregon, USA)
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction: On reading Rhys transnationally
Juliana 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 transculturalism
1. The white Creole in Paris: Joséphine, Colette and Jean Rhys's Quartet and Good Morning, Midnight
Elaine Savory (New School, USA)
2. Strange defeat: Good Morning, Midnight and Marc Bloch’s L’Étrange défaite
Scott McCracken (Queen Mary University of London, UK)
3. ‘Also I do like the moderns’: Reading Rhys's reading
Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University, UK)
4. ‘Parler de soi’: Jean Rhys and the uses of life writing
Simon Cooke (University of Edinburgh, UK)
5. Jean Rhys and Indonesia: A lineage and alienage
Chris GoGwilt (Fordham University, USA)
Part 2 Lines of flight: Rhys’s transnational legacy
6. Jean Rhys in Australian neo-Victorian and Great House imaginaries
Sue Thomas (LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia)
7. Twisted lines in Caribbean postcolonial Modernism: Jean Rhys and Edward Kamau Brathwaite
Françoise Clary (Rouen University, France)
8. Dressing and addressing the self: Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and the cultural politics of self-fashioning
Denise deCaires Narain (University of Sussex, UK)
9. 'Competing conversations': Voice and identity in Caryl Phillips’s A View of the Empire at Sunset
Kathie 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 Wallart
Bibliography
Index