Il Grande Mare Dei Sargassi by Jean Rhys
A lush, haunting prequel told from the perspective of a Creole woman who grows up amid decay and racial tension in the Caribbean, is married off to an Englishman, and gradually loses her identity and agency as cultural dislocation, betrayal and domestic confinement close around her; the narrative traces her psychological unraveling and the violent consequences of colonialism, patriarchy and exile in a vivid, intimate voice.
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- Published
- 1966
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Unknown
- Pages
- 160-176 pages
- Original Language
- English
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