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Article: Jean Rhys.
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- Studies in the Novel
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 306 pp. $59.95.
Despite the volume of critical work devoted to Jean Rhys, she remains an unplaceable writer. She was a modernist who insisted that she had never read many of her contemporaries, a writer in 1920s Paris who did not frequent Left Bank salons, and an insistent anti-feminist who created texts that feminists have claimed as their own. Through her peripatetic life and span of creative work--her first novel was published in 1928; her most famous book, Wide Sargasso Sea, did not appear until 1966-Rhys is a writer who seems to belong everywhere and nowhere.
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