'Intemperate and Unchaste': Jean Rhys and Caribbean Creole Identity

摘要: In this article, Carr examines Jean Rhys's ambivalent feelings about her West Indian origins. She looks at the problems both she and others have had in deciding whether work can be truly considered to belong category of Caribbean literature. The difficulty lies not just expatriate existence or European themes, but goes back position as a white Creole woman, descendant slave-owners. traditional representations suggest that characteristics assigned Bertha Mason Jane Eyre , 'intemperate unchaste', persisted day, all fiction, even when explicitly Caribbean, seen write such representations. When Rhys arrived England, was immediately identified Other because accent, something marked out disturbingly associated with non-white Indians; no longer really white, although whiteness ...