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Nakamura Kazue
Department Undergraduate School , School of Law Position Professor |
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| Language | Japanese |
| Publication Date | 2022/01 |
| Type | Academic Journal |
| Invitation | Invited paper |
| Title | Colonial Bookworm Girl: Jean Rhys’s Quartet (2) |
| Contribution Type | Sole-authored |
| Journal | Studies of Comparative Literature |
| Journal Type | Japan |
| Publisher | Society of Comparative Literature, the University of Tokyo |
| Volume, Issue, Page | (107),pp.107--123 |
| Details | This is the second half of the essay recontextualizing Jean Rhys’s novel Quartet (1928) in a line of “colonial bookworm girls.” It further analyses Quartet by contrasting it with Bowen’s autobiography referring to Ford, Hemingway, Waley and Caribbean writers, the economic situation of bohemian writers and artists in Paris of the 1920s, and the social status of women at the time. It reveals that Rhys’s strategy in dealing with the difficulties in this unfair world is far closer to the Afro-Caribbean tradition of rebellious heroes than the ethics of self-help in the White Protestant settler colony of South Australia. |