"Sketchy modernism". Issue 3 (1st September 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Harris, Laurel
• Is Part Of: Feminist modernist studies. Volume 3:Issue 3(2020)
• Page Start: 294
• Page End: 301
• Publication Date: 2020-09-01
• Subjects: Jean Rhys -- precarity -- modernism; Feminism -- Periodicals; Women's studies -- Periodicals; Modernism (Literature) -- Periodicals; Women's studies; Modernism (Literature); Feminism; Periodicals; Electronic journals; 305.4205
• DOI: 10.1080/24692921.2020.1816633
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2469-2921

Abstract

ABSTRACT: "Sketchy Modernism" argues for a definition of modernism that takes into account institutional failure and the precarity of academic labor. The adjective "sketchy, " defined as at once unfinished and foundational, serves here as a guide for rethinking our own scholarly commitments. I claim Jean Rhys as an exemplary "sketchy modernist, " considering how her novel Voyage in the Dark (1934) and her unpublished short story "The Imperial Road, " written in the early 1970s, offer insight into contemporary academic insecurity.