The Anglo-Caribbean, British author Jean Rhys, who published the bulk of her writing between 1927 and 1939, has long been thought to have achieved success as a postcolonial writer only in her last novel, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). In this view, the substantial colonial content of the preceding fictions, which include four additional novels, is mostly ignored. This opinion holds amongst prominent Rhys scholars even though many of the these fictions have Caribbean settings and characters like Wide Sargasso Sea. This study revises this prominent view of Rhys. The colonial content of the four...
The Anglo-Caribbean, British author Jean Rhys, who published the bulk of her writing between 1927 and 1939, has long been thought to have achieved suc...
