Reading Jean Rhys : empire, modernism and the politics of the visual

Reading Jean Rhys : empire, modernism and the politics of the visual

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This thesis considers the relationship between literary modernism and visual culture in the work of Caribbean modernist Jean Rhys. Through analysis of a range of visual modes—theatre, fashion, visual art, cinema and exhibition culture—it examines the racialised sexual politics of Rhys’s modernist ae...

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Main Author:	Downes, Sarah
Other Authors:	Snaith, Anna Lucy; Heim, Otto
Published:	King's College London (University of London) 2014
Subjects:	813
Online Access:	http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.656912

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