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The World of Jean Rhys

Sue Thomas

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Best known as the author of Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys continues to draw growing amounts of popular and scholarly attention. This book explores Rhys's sense of world, the cross-cultural and the international in her novels, stories, and autobiographical writing. The volume situates Rhys's writing in relation to the Dominican cultural production with which she was familiar, to Rhys's family's history on the island, and to European ethnographic discourses about white creole people. Special attention is given to the political and ethical locations of Rhys's authorial and narrative voices with respect to discourses of empire, gender, sex, race, class, ethnicity, and desire. The book demonstrates that an historical reading of Rhys's work poses questions for a number of current theoretical approaches.

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Other editions: Softcover - 2009, Hardcover - 2008, Softcover - 2006, 2006, Softcover - 2004, Softcover - 2001, Hardcover - 2001, Softcover - 1995, Softcover - 1995, Hardcover - 1994