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Jean Rhys at "World's End": Novels of Colonial and Sexual Exile
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Jean Rhys at "World's End": Novels of Colonial and Sexual Exile
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Jean Rhys at "World's End": Novels of Colonial and Sexual Exile
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Emery considers all five Rhys novels, beginning with
as the most explicitly Caribbean in its setting, in its participation in the culminating decades of a West Indian literary naissance, and most importantly, in its subversive transformation of European concepts of character. From a sociocultural perspective, she argues persuasively that the earlier novels
,
, and
should be read as emergent Caribbean fiction, written in tense dialogue with European modernism. Building on this thesis, she reveals how the apparent passivity, masochism, or silence of Rhys's female protagonists results from their doubly marginalized status as women and as subject peoples. Also, she explores how Rhys's women seek out alternative identities in dreamed of, magically realized, or chosen communities.
These discoveries offer important insights on literary modernism, Caribbean fiction, and the formation of female identity.