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Jean Rhys, Helen Carr

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

index present

non fiction

Jean Rhys

electronic resource

Helen Carr

Writers and their work

This is a lucid and attractively written study of Jean Rhys whose critical reputation continues to rise after long neglect., 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 and colonial power relations. Helen Carrs account draws on both recent feminism and postcolonial theory, and places Rhyss work in relation to modernist and postmodernist writing. First published in 1996, Helen Carrs revised edition takes full cognizance of the wide critical attention paid to Rhys since that date