Jean Rhys: The West Indian Novels

By Teresa F. O'Connor

Book Overview

Making use of the unpublished manuscripts and biographical sources of Jean Rhys as well as the published works, this book analyzes the cultural, historical and family influences on the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. 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814761747
• ISBN13: 9780814761748
• Release Date: June 1986
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.