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What is Jean Rhys : the West Indian novels about?

Making use of the unpublished manuscripts and biographical sources of Jean Rhys as well as the published works, this book analyzes the cultural, historical and family influences on the Dominican-born author. Most notable of the unpublished works is "The Black Exercise Book", a private journal Rhys kept in the 1930s, which helps to locate the sources of alienation, despair and self-destroying sexuality that were central to the author's life and her literary efforts. Here O'Connor finds important artistic and personal reasons for Rhys's perpetuation of the myth regarding her homeland, and reveals the importance of place in her work.

Author

Teresa F. O'Connor

Publisher

New York: New York University Press

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814761649

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Biography