Neglected and forgotten for many years, the arresting, elliptical novels written by Dominican-born Jean Rhys are now widely acclaimed. Her last and most famous novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, her retelling of Jane Eyre, is a central text for the imaginative re-examination of gender an…
This is a lucid and attractively written study of Jean Rhys whose critical reputation continues to rise after long neglect.
This is a lucid and attractively written study of Jean Rhys whose critical reputation continues to rise after long neglect.
Helen Carr's account draws on both recent feminism and postcolonial theory, and places Jean Rhys's work in relation to modernist and postmodernist writing.
Helen Carr draws on feminist and postcolonial theory to place Rhys's work in the context of modernist and postmodernist writing.She argues that Rhys's fiction was drawn from the fabric of her own life and enabled her to powerfully critique the greed and cruelty of the Establishm…