Rhys Matters

1. Introduction: Rhys Matters?
Mary Wilson, Kerry L. Johnson

Part I. Alternatives and Alterities: Market, Time, Language

2. Menu, Memento, Souvenir: Suffering and Social Imagination in Good Morning, Midnight
Andrea Zemgulys

3. Clockwork Women: Temporality and Form in Jean Rhys’s Interwar Novels
Nicole Flynn

4. Language and Belonging in Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark
Ania Spyra

Part II. Being and Believing: Judeo-Christian Influences and Identities

5. Religion in Rhys
Steve Pinkerton

6. “No Pride, No Name, No Face, No Country”: Jewishness and National Identity in Good Morning, Midnight
Jess Issacharoff

Part III. The Location of Identity: Writing Space and Place

7. The Country and the City in Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark
Regina Martin

8. “That Misty Zone Which Divides Life from Death”: The Concept of the Zombi in Jean Rhys’s Short Fiction
Melanie Otto

9. Reclaiming the Left Bank: Jean Rhys’s “Topography” in The Left Bank and Quartet
David Armstrong

Part IV. Pleasure, Power, Happiness

10. The Trouble with “Victim”: Triangulated Masochism in Jean Rhys’s Quartet
Jennifer Mitchell

11. “The Good Life Will Start Again”: Rest, Return, and Remainder in Good Morning, Midnight
Andrew Kalaidjian

12. The Un-happy Short Story Cycle: Jean Rhys’s Sleep It Off, Lady
Paul Ardoin

Nyckelord: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Gender Studies, Postcolonial/World Literature, Latin American Culture, Literary History, Fiction