Out of “Place”: Rooms, Dirt, and Narrative of Space in Jean Rhys's VOYAGE IN THE DARK

Lee, Klaudia Hiu Yen

doi:10.1080/00144940.2016.1203746

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“…Symbolically, 'dirt' stands for unclean, unethical, not true, and as a metaphor, 'dirt' stands in opposition to the notion of purity (Lee, 2016). Douglas (2003) defines dirt as a 'matter out of place', which in symbolic form means that dirt appears in the wrong place, and thus interrupts a sense of order in the world (Cohen & Johnson, 2005, p. xi).…”

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Tourism and ‘dirt’: A case study of WWOOF farms in New Zealand

Wengel

McIntosh

Cockburn‐Wootten

2018

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management

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Tourism research on host-guest relations in non-profit exchange programmes remains scant. Using a case study of WWOOF farms in New Zealand, this paper examines the experiences of farmers and volunteers ('WWOOFers') in the Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) programme. Using qualitative methods that privileged participants' voices, the research aimed to uncover the nature of the host-guest relationship in non-for-profit tourism. The key theme of 'dirt' is explored in this paper to illustrate both the physical nature of the voluntary farm work and the perceived exploitation of volunteers that are reported to characterise this experience. Overall, the findings challenge the idealistic aims of this type of volunteer tourism exchange programme that is usually reported in tourism literature. Specifically, the findings indicate the tensions of economic and ethical accountability within the WWOOF network and its community. The paper contributes to tourism studies research by providing further understanding of the experiences shaping the relations and tensions between hosts and guests in this non-profit exchange programme.

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Tourism and ‘dirt’: A case study of WWOOF farms in New Zealand

Wengel

McIntosh

Cockburn‐Wootten

2018

Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management

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“…She loves the chaos of different smells and colours, but in England, everything seems monotonousdrab colours of grey, the towns "looked exactly alike … rows of little houses with chimneys like funnels of dummy steamers and smoke the same colour as the sky" (p. 8). The search for a room in a home, argues K. Lee (2016) illustrates her constant search for warmth and security. But these places are not welcoming.…”

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"You'll Get Used to It": Alterity in Jean Rhys' Voyage in the Dark

Faja

Hashim

Majid

2020

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Due to the complex intersecting parameters of identity, race, class, and history of Jean Rhys' writing life, her works allow for interpretation from various disciplines. Rhys' writings reveal the realities of people caught in the complexity of such a web. Her 1934 novel Voyage in the Dark provides insights into the life of Anna Morgan, the heroine of this novel who moves from her home in Dominica to England to face the entire psychological and social struggle by her journey that ends her up with destruction caused by the challenges that seem to conspire to her tragic fate. In understanding the life of Anna Morgan, the woman who has been told that she will "get used" to her circumstances, the concept of alterity is a useful reading approach in unveiling the push and pull factors that drive her to her downfall. As a concept, alterity is explained in this paper through making overt the structure of the novel that exposes various factors that markedly contain facets of alterity such as alienation, assimilation, and separation. By appropriating this reading lens, we hope to show how multiple factors machinate to show the systematic ways in which Anna Morgan's fate is sealed when the heroine herself and others around her cannot accept otherness and fusion.

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Out of “Place”: Rooms, Dirt, and Narrative of Space in Jean Rhys's VOYAGE IN THE DARK

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Tourism and ‘dirt’: A case study of WWOOF farms in New Zealand

Tourism and ‘dirt’: A case study of WWOOF farms in New Zealand

"You'll Get Used to It": Alterity in Jean Rhys' Voyage in the Dark

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