Abstract The article deals with crises of transmission in some of Jean Rhys's stories included in Sleep It Off Lady (1976), more specifically ‘Pioneers, Oh, Pioneers’, ‘Fishy Waters’, ‘Good-bye Marcus, Good-bye Rose’ and ‘Sleep It Off Lady’. Their voiceless characters are discussed through the lens of precariousness, the argument relying on Guillaume Le Blanc's and Judith Butler's essays on precarious lives (Guillaume Le Blanc, Vies ordinaires, vies précaires, 2007; Judith Butler, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence, 2004). I shed light on the correlations between social precariousness, invisibility and linguistic vulnerability which make the transmission of the experience of dispossession precarious itself. The stories stage ghostly, invisible characters who cannot give an account of themselves but who, on the other hand, are held accountable by society. This oppressive type of accountability based on punishment or revenge contributes something to the crisis of transmission to which Jean Rhys's fiction obsessively returns. Caught within this coercive system of accountability, the precarious self remains untransmissible, while the stories bear witness to the processes which obstruct voice, and tell tales of precariousness.

中文翻译：

---

Sleep It Off Lady 中听不见的声音

摘要 这篇文章涉及让·里斯 (Jean Rhys) 的一些故事中的传播危机 (1976 年)，更具体地说是“先驱者，哦，先驱者”，“鱼腥味”，“再见马库斯，再见玫瑰”和“睡吧女士”。他们的无声人物通过不稳定的镜头进行讨论，这一论点依赖于纪尧姆勒布朗和朱迪思巴特勒关于不稳定生活的文章（纪尧姆勒布朗，Vies ordinaires，vies précaires，2007；朱迪思巴特勒，不稳定的生活：哀悼和暴力的力量, 2004)。我阐明了社会不稳定、隐形和语言脆弱性之间的相关性，这使得剥夺体验的传播本身就不稳定。故事上演了幽灵般的隐形人物，他们无法描述自己，但谁，另一方面，要承担社会责任。这种基于惩罚或报复的压迫性问责制导致了让·里斯（Jean Rhys）的小说痴迷地回归的传播危机。在这个强制性的问责制度中，不稳定的自我仍然无法传播，而故事见证了阻碍声音的过程，讲述了不稳定的故事。