From 1929 to 1997, Rumer Godden published more than 60 books, including novels, biographies, children's books, and poetry; this is the first collection devoted to this important transnational writer. Focusing on Godden's writing from the 1930s onward, the contributors uncover the breadth and variety of the literary landscape on display in works such as Black Narcissus, The Lady and the Unicorn, A Fugue in Time, and The River. Often drawing on her own experiences living in India and Britain, Godden establishes a diverse narrative topography that allows her to engage with issues related to her…mehr
From 1929 to 1997, Rumer Godden published more than 60 books, including novels, biographies, children's books, and poetry; this is the first collection devoted to this important transnational writer. Focusing on Godden's writing from the 1930s onward, the contributors uncover the breadth and variety of the literary landscape on display in works such as Black Narcissus, The Lady and the Unicorn, A Fugue in Time, and The River. Often drawing on her own experiences living in India and Britain, Godden establishes a diverse narrative topography that allows her to engage with issues related to her own uncertain position as an author representing such nomadic Others as gypsies, or taking up the displacements brought about by international conflict. Recognizing that studies of the transnational must consider the condition of enforced and elected exile within the changing political and cultural borders of postcolonial nations, the contributors position Godden with respect to different and overlapping fields of inquiry: modern literary history; colonial, postcolonial, and transnational studies; inter-media studies; and children's literature. Taken together, the essays in this volume demonstrate the richness and variety of Godden's writing and render the myriad ways in which Godden is an important critical presence in mid-twentieth-century fiction.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Lucy Le-Guilcher received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, where she wrote a thesis entitled Style and Women's Writing, 1940s and 1950s. In December 2007, she organized a centenary symposium on Rumer Godden, and has presented conference papers in Sydney and the UK. She is a regular reviewer for Women: A Cultural Review. Phyllis B. Lassner is Professor in the Crown Center for Jewish Studies, the Gender Studies, and Writing Programs at Northwestern University, USA. She is the author of two books on Elizabeth Bowen, British Women Writers of World War II, Colonial Strangers, Anglo-Jewish Women Writing the Holocaust, and many articles on women writers. She serves as Co-President of The Space Between Society: Literature and Culture 1914-1945.
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Introduction Lucy Le-Guilcher Phyllis B. Lassner; Part I Rumer Godden's India; Chapter 1 The View from the Middle: Godden and her Literary Landscape Mary Grover; Chapter 2 "Far More Remote Than It Actually Is": Rumer Godden's Black Narcissus and 1930s Mountain Writing Mark Rawlinson; Chapter 3 In Search of Rumer Godden's India Gayathri Prabhu; Chapter 4 Questions of "Mixed Race" in The Lady and the Unicorn and The Peacock Spring Elizabeth Maslen; Part II Godden and British Culture; Chapter 5 An Experiment with Narrative? Rumer Godden's A Fugue in Time Victoria Stewart; Chapter 6 A Child's Perspective: The Reconstruction of the Domestic Sphere in The Dolls' House and Impunity Jane Lucy Le-Guilcher; Chapter 7 Imagining Gypsies: Growing up in Gypsy Gypsy and The Diddakoi Rod Mengham; Chapter 8 China Court: Rumer Godden's Epic of the English Novel Phyllis Lassner; Part III Sexuality and Longing; Chapter 9 Childhood Longing Sexuality Violence and Sacrifice in Rumer Godden's The River An Episode of Sparrows and The Greengage Summer Philip Tew; Chapter 10 Sweetness and Darkness: Realism in Rumer Godden's Novels Tessa Hadley; Part IV Rumer Godden's Life and Career; Chapter 11 Rumer Godden: A Sense of Performance and Poetry Anne Harvey; Chapter 12 "A Born Storyteller": Clips from the Interviews Clare Jenkins; Chapter 13 "Sometimes": A Daughter's Reflections Jane Murray Flutter;
Introduction Lucy Le-Guilcher Phyllis B. Lassner; Part I Rumer Godden's India; Chapter 1 The View from the Middle: Godden and her Literary Landscape Mary Grover; Chapter 2 "Far More Remote Than It Actually Is": Rumer Godden's Black Narcissus and 1930s Mountain Writing Mark Rawlinson; Chapter 3 In Search of Rumer Godden's India Gayathri Prabhu; Chapter 4 Questions of "Mixed Race" in The Lady and the Unicorn and The Peacock Spring Elizabeth Maslen; Part II Godden and British Culture; Chapter 5 An Experiment with Narrative? Rumer Godden's A Fugue in Time Victoria Stewart; Chapter 6 A Child's Perspective: The Reconstruction of the Domestic Sphere in The Dolls' House and Impunity Jane Lucy Le-Guilcher; Chapter 7 Imagining Gypsies: Growing up in Gypsy Gypsy and The Diddakoi Rod Mengham; Chapter 8 China Court: Rumer Godden's Epic of the English Novel Phyllis Lassner; Part III Sexuality and Longing; Chapter 9 Childhood Longing Sexuality Violence and Sacrifice in Rumer Godden's The River An Episode of Sparrows and The Greengage Summer Philip Tew; Chapter 10 Sweetness and Darkness: Realism in Rumer Godden's Novels Tessa Hadley; Part IV Rumer Godden's Life and Career; Chapter 11 Rumer Godden: A Sense of Performance and Poetry Anne Harvey; Chapter 12 "A Born Storyteller": Clips from the Interviews Clare Jenkins; Chapter 13 "Sometimes": A Daughter's Reflections Jane Murray Flutter;
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