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"Jean Rhys has long been central to debates in feminist, modernist, Caribbean, British and post-colonial writing. Elaine Savory's study, which refers widely to Rhys criticism and goes beyond it, is a critical reading of Rhys's entire ouevre, including the stories and autobiography, and is informed by recently released unpublished manuscripts by Rhys. Designed both for the serious scholar and those unfamiliar with Rhys's writing, Savory's book insists...

"Focusing on specific texts by Jamaica Kincaid, Maryse Conde, and Paule Marshall, this study explores the intricate trichotomous relationship between the mother (biological or surrogate), the motherlands Africa and the Caribbean, and the mothercountry represented by England, France, and/or North America. The mother-daughter relationships in the works discussed address the complex, conflicting notions of motherhood that exist within this trichotomy....

Approaching postcolonial theory through cultural analysis, this book offers an appraisal of developments in postcolonial criticism. Readings of a range of Anglophone Caribbean migrant women's texts lead to insights into three issues that are crucial to an understanding of the field.