Jean Rhys at World's End: Novels of Colonial and Sexual Exile

by Mary Lou Emery

Book Overview

The Caribbean Islands have long been an uneasy meeting place among indigenous peoples, white European colonists, and black slave populations. Tense oppositions in Caribbean culture--colonial vs. native, white vs. black, male conqueror vs. female subject--supply powerful themes and spark complex narrative experiments in the fiction of Dominica-born novelist Jean Rhys. In this pathfinding study, Mary Lou Emery focuses on Rhys's handling of these oppositions,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292711263
• ISBN13: 9780292711266
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"