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Article: Jean Rhys.(Review)
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- College Literature
- Article date:
- September 22, 2000
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Sylvie Maurel.1998. Jean Rhys.
New York: St. Martin's. $35.00 hc. 200 pp.
Over the past four decades, Jean Rhys's novels and short stories have been read in multiple ways from multiple cultural perspectives. Feminist, postcolonial and revisionary modernist critics have all explored the ways in which Rhys's writing both does and does not fit into those literary categories. Sylvie Maurel's new book (part of St. Martin's Women Writers series) in many ways improves on earlier feminist and textual analyses of Rhys's work, but also implicitly raises the problem of Rhys's critical location(s) though without addressing the motivation behind Maurel's own ...