Jean Rhys’s Tropographies: Unmappable Identity and the Tropical Landscape in Wide Sargasso Sea and Selected Short Fiction
This essay seeks to trouble the traditional understanding of Jean Rhys’s ‘homelessness’ through a re-examination of the way in which the uncertain identities of her fiction are tied to their geographical settings. This works towards a reading of Rhys’s narratives as ‘literature of the tropics,’ desc...
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| Language: | English |
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James Cook University
2011-12-01
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| Series: | eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics |
| Online Access: | https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3403 |