Myśl imperialna i bohaterka Jean Rhys: pomiędzy Wielką Brytanią a Karaibami

Agnieszka Miksza

doi:10.18778/8142-295-6

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

Agnieszka Miksza

Uniwersytet Łódzki, Łódź

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The British Empire: Interdisciplinary Deliberations

Pages: 39-45

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18778/8142-295-6.03

Keywords: British Empire, British colonies, postcolonialism, colonialism, Great Britain, United Kingdom

Published: 30 December 2019

Categories: History, Open Access

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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.

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Miksza, Agnieszka. 2019. “Cultural Imperialism and Jean Rhys’s Heroine: Between the British and the Caribbean”. In The British Empire: Interdisciplinary Deliberations, edited by Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney and Zbigniew Bednarek, 39-45. Poland: Lodz University Press. https://doi.org/10.18778/8142-295-6.03.