Chapter Cultural Imperialism and Jean Rhys’s Heroine: between the British and the Caribbean

Jean Rhys’s life, as well as the lives of her heroines can be summarized as “trying to belong and failing”. The concerns addressed by Jean Rhys oscillate between power and powerless, discourse and silence, prisoners, patients, and the “machinery that keeps society functioning”. All these are a cruci...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1548772025-03-07T13:41:31Z Chapter Cultural Imperialism and Jean Rhys’s Heroine: between the British and the Caribbean Miksza, Agnieszka British Empire British colonies postcolonialism colonialism Great Britain United Kingdom Jean Rhys’s life, as well as the lives of her heroines can be summarized as “trying to belong and failing”. The concerns addressed by Jean Rhys oscillate between power and powerless, discourse and silence, prisoners, patients, and the “machinery that keeps society functioning”. All these are a crucial contextual frame for Rhys’s most important themes, which are psychological implications of the cultural dualism, which can be both ascribed to Jean Rhys and her fictional heroines. 2025-03-07T13:41:29Z 2025-03-07T13:41:29Z 2019 chapter ONIX_20250307_9788381422963_302 9788381422963 9788381422956 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/154877 pol image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.press.uni.lodz.pl/index.php/wul/catalog/book/961 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego 10.18778/8142-295-6.03 Jean Rhys’s life, as well as the lives of her heroines can be summarized as “trying to belong and failing”. The concerns addressed by Jean Rhys oscillate between power and powerless, discourse and silence, prisoners, patients, and the “machinery that keeps society functioning”. All these are a crucial contextual frame for Rhys’s most important themes, which are psychological implications of the cultural dualism, which can be both ascribed to Jean Rhys and her fictional heroines. 10.18778/8142-295-6.03 83bfe9c9-323d-4283-b087-d859fd9af314 9788381422963 9788381422956 39-45 open access
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British colonies
postcolonialism
colonialism
Great Britain
United Kingdom
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