GLITS Special Lecture: '"Only, of course, to be accepted as authentic, to carry any conviction, it would have to be written be a man": Sasha's re-writing in Good Morning, Midnight as a gesture of female affirmation'

Goldsmiths Literature Seminar

Johanna Franklin (Goldsmiths)

The significant other in Good Morning, Midnight is Sasha's memory. She is an acutely self-conscious protagonist - alternatively weak and strong, afraid, brave, mad, positive, all depending on her present situation. Sasha's awareness of this movement is at the heart of the novel. Her awareness illustrates one of the central modernist conundrums: how to acknowledge and use without being fettered. Yet not only does the postcolonial argue against, or balance, the modernist formal aesthetic in Rhys's work, but her humour, her play with the absence of meaning, and her delight in the dramatic and figurative all entwine with her social criticism to establish a literary voice at once unique, somehow Nietzschean and susceptible to extreme hostility. What would be different if Sasha were a man?

GLITS

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27 Feb 2012	6:00pm - 8:00pm	apple google outlook

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