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Jean Rhys-Please help!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I love Jean Rhys!! Is she on a syllabus? Have you access to a library?
A common mistake is to conflate all the protagonists into one 'Rhys Woman' ie various aspects of the author without spearate identites.
Rhys criticism tends to consider her white West Indian background (esp. for Voyage in the Dark), use of clothing and cosmetics, masks, 'amateur' prostitute dependent on men, absent mother/family, attitude of passivity and indifference etc. Could ramble on for hours - let me know if you have any other thoughts/ideas you'd like to discuss!
Lots of material for dissertation! Is it for BA degree?
Sylvie Maurel has written a good intro. called 'Jean Rhys'. I avoided the older books (from late 1970s/early1980s) as a lot of it is wrong, quite frankly. Elaine Savory and Mary Lou Emery are good too. There is a Jean Rhys Review but it's hard to get hold of. Her letters have also been published ed. Francis Wyndham and Diana Melly.
Links do come up on Google - best one is from a JR conference held in Dominica in 2004 with links to various papers.
What kind of argument do you want to make about the women?
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