Transnational Jean Rhys

This volume investigates the frameworks that can be applied to reading Caribbean author Jean Rhys. While <i>Wide Sargasso Sea</i> famously displays overt forms of literary influences Jean Rhys's entire oeuvre is so fraught with connections to other texts and textual practices across geographical boundaries that her classification as a cosmopolitan modernist writer is due for reassessment.<br/><br/><i>Transnational Jean Rhys</i> argues against the relative isolationism that is sometimes associated with Rhys's writing by demonstrating both how she was influenced by a wide range of foreign - especially French - authors and how her influence was in turn disseminated in myriad directions. Including an interview with Black Atlantic novelist Caryl Phillips this collection charts new territories in the influences on/of an author known for her dislike of literary coteries but whose literary communality has been underestimated.