Between Illusion and Reality, ‘Who's to Know’: Threshold Spaces in the Interwar Novels of Jean Rhys

摘要: Abstract This article considers the concept of threshold in interwar novels Jean Rhys and demonstrates how attempts by Rhys's female characters to transform themselves both internally externally are complicated spaces which they operate. draw attention social economic situation for women living alone European cities moving between liminal cafes hotel rooms. In addition these physical thresholds, also becomes a precarious psychological space characters, where boundaries truth illusion, reality fantasy merge freely identity is always provisional. By drawing on work Walter Benjamin theories as site transition transformation, this argues that characters’ create stable can be read an attempt survive traditional public private identities available wo...