Index

Achebe, Chinua 21
Adam, H. Pearl 7
After Leaving Mr. MacKenzie 9, 43–52, 54, 57, 62, 66, 106, 109
“After the Deluge,” 99
“Again the Antilles,” 2, 25, 29
Age
ageing 30, 49, 67, 72, 100
old age 2, 72, 100
alcohol 47–48, 59, 64–65, 67, 69, 70, 72, 78, 85–86, 93, 94–95, 97, 100, 102, 108
alcoholism ix, 4, 18
Allen, Walter 109, 128 n. 23
Allfrey, Phyllis Shand 113
Almayer’s Folly 44, 124 n. 11
Alvarez, A. 109, 129 n. 30
Andre, Irving 118 n. 10
“A Night,” 27, 29
Annie John 124 n. 18
Antoni, Robert 22, 117, 123 n. 33, 132 n. 81, 120–121 n. 7
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 15
“A Solid House,” 93, 96, 97
“A Spiritualist,” 26
Athill, Diana, 11 26, 98, 102, 104
At the Bottom of the River 124 n. 18
Atwood, Margaret 116
Austen, Jane 114
Baartman, Sarah 58, 125 n. 28
Baer, Elizabeth 112
Barclay, Florence 56
Barnes, Djuna 8, 19, 43
Barred 8, 9, 126 n. 50
Beardsley, Aubrey 45, 124–125 n. 20
Bell, Hesketh 1, 2, 21–22, 118 n. 9, 126 n. 41
Bell, Madison Smartt 118 n. 4
Bender, Todd 110, 129 n. 37
Benstock, Shari 108
Berman, Carolyn 113
Bildungsroman 52
Blessed is the fruit 22, 117, 132 n. 87
Bloomsbury Group 45, 124 n. 13
Bona Vista 2, 27, 61, 82, 118 n. 12
Bowen, Stella 7, 34, 119 n. 26
Bradbury, Malcolm, and James McFarlane 120 n. 5
Brathwaite, Kamau 113, 130 nn. 52, 53, 55
Braybrooke, Neville 108, 109, 128 nn. 21, 26
Brixton, Florence Haxton 127 n. 9
Brontë, Charlotte 20, 79, 86, 122 n. 25
Brontë, Emily 103, 130–131 n. 66
Brooker, Jewel Spears and Joseph Bentley 120 n. 6
Brown, Stewart 116, 132 n. 86
Brussels 36, 74
Byron, George Gordon, Lord 12, 96
Café du Dôme 25, 73
Café Royal 45, 124 n. 14
Campbell, Elaine and Pierrette Frickey 126 n. 51
Carco, Francis 7, 26, 99, 119 n. 29, 123 n. 1, 124 n. 15
Caribs 59, 103, 114
Carnival 3, 53, 60, 113, 130 n. 62
Carr, Helen 114
Carter, Hannah 123 n. 35
Cary, Joyce 21
Casey, Nancy J. 110, 129 n. 32
Catholic church 3, 57, 90
Cézair-Thompson, Margaret 117, 132 n. 87
Chéri 17
child 13, 32, 37–38, 46, 61, 63, 85, 87, 88, 90, 95, 98, 100–101, 101–102, 104
cinema 31, 43, 44, 47, 49, 55, 62, 63, 70, 71, 73, 76, 123 n. 6
Civil Rights 108
Clarke, Austin 109
Cliff, Michelle 116
Cole, Laurence 109, 128 n. 27
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 56, 125 n. 23
Colette 17–18, 111, 116, 122 n. 19
Collier, Carmen P. 128 n. 22
colonial and postcolonial, ix 2, 3, 14, 16, 17, 20–22, 79, 80
color, light, dark 34, 49, 51–52, 54, 58, 76, 79, 92
Columbus, Christopher 56, 125 n. 21
Condé, Maryse 114, 130–131 n. 66
confinement, ix 33, 63, 80
prison 6, 10, 28, 30, 31, 32, 36, 37, 38, 39, 41, 50, 53, 63, 75, 80, 93
Connolly, Cyril 106, 128 n. 10
Conrad, Joseph 15, 44, 110, 124 n. 11
“Consolation à Monsieur Du Périer,” 91
Coppard, A. E. 15
Cowart, David 109
Cowper, William 12
Crabbe, George 12
creatures 33, 50, 55, 62, 63, 72, 82, 84, 87, 89
Creole 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 22, 24, 31, 59, 81, 113, 115
Cuba 31, 59, 74
cummings, e. e. 15
Dance, Daryl Cumper 123 n. 30
Davidson, Arnold 111, 115, 129 n. 43
de Beauvoir, Simone 116
Dell’Amico, Carol 114
Dell’Oro, Erminia 116
de Maupassant, Guy 13, 120 n. 2
de Souza, Eunice 110, 129 n. 34
Dickinson, Emily 67, 125 n. 32
deNève, Edouard (Jean Lenglet) 8, 98, 107
Dominica Dial, the 118 n. 10
Donoghue, Denis 124 n. 8
Dostoievsky, Feodor Mikhailovich 44, 124 n. 12
Drawn from Life 8, 119 n. 26
dreams 52, 79, 80, 91, 95, 112
Dreschfeld, Violet 7
Dubliners 15
Dumas, Marguerite 132 n. 84
dysfunctional family relations 48, 53, 57, 59, 65, 81–82, 83, 92
dysfunctional sexuality and emotions 4, 46, 48, 49, 51, 52, 57, 59–60, 64, 76, 77, 79, 91, 97, 98
Echeruo, Michael 122 n. 29
Edmondson, Belinda 116, 132 n. 84
Eliot, T. S., x 15–16, 38, 52, 108, 122 nn. 15, 16, 17, 124 nn. 8, 16, 125 n. 36
Engels, Frederick 62
England and the English 4, 12, 13, 27, 30, 32, 48, 58, 59, 86, 92, 96, 101, 103, 108, 109, 110
ethnicity 2, 7, 12, 41, 59, 74–75
feminism, x 19–20, 68, 108, 110, 111, 112, 115
Ferguson, Moira 114, 130 n. 64
Finnegans Wake 121 n. 14
“Fishy Waters,” 100, 101–102
folk tales 56, 89
Forster, E. M. 124 n. 13
Fort Comme La Mort 13, 120 n. 2
Foster, Paul 122 n. 17
Frazer, Elizabeth W. 128 n. 22
Freud, Sigmund 121 n. 8
Frickey, Pierrette 131 n. 70
“From a Diary: At the Ropemaker’s Arms,” 10–11, 104–105
Gaines, Nora, The Jean Rhys Review 114, 131 n. 73
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel 120–121 n. 7
gender 17–18, 18–20, 21, 52, 56, 60, 68, 75, 77, 112, 116
“Gerontian,” 15
ghost(s) 50, 79, 92, 98, 116
Gilman, Sander 125 n. 28
Glissant, Edouard 114
“Good-bye Marcus, Good-bye Rose,” 98
Goodison, Lorna 87, 117
Good Morning, Midnight 9, 11, 17, 21, 66–79, 80, 92, 96, 107, 110, 111, 115, 126 n. 50
“Good Morning, Midnight,” 67, 125 n. 32
Gould, Gerald 127 n. 6
Graham, Gladys 127 n. 8
Gray, Ella 4
Great Women Writers 115, 131 n. 77
Gregg, Veronica 113, 130 n. 57
Guadaloupe 3, 13, 101
Guerillas 128 n. 24
Gulliver’s Travels 12
Haiti 89
Hamer, Ella 10–11
Hamer, Max 10, 11, 19
Hampson, John 107
Hanscombe, Gillian and Virginia L. Smyers 107, 128 n. 17
Hardy, Thomas 23
Harris, Wilson 109, 113, 130 n. 62
Harrison, Nancy 19, 112, 129 n. 47
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) 19, 112, 129 n. 48
Hearne, John 109, 129 n. 31
“Heat,” 99
Hemans, Felicia 12, 120 n. 1
Hemingway, Ernest 15, 16, 38, 116, 121 n. 14
Hemmerechts, Kristien 114, 131 n. 74
Hite, Molly 112, 129 n. 49
Hodge, Merle 125 n. 22
Honychurch, Lennox 82, 118 nn. 2, 5, 8, 13, 126 n. 39
Hopkinson, Nalo 125 n. 22
Horner, Avril and Sue, Zlosnik 116, 132 n. 84
“Hottentot Venus,” 58, 125 n. 2
Howard, Mr. 4, 78, 98
Howells, Coral Ann 114, 131 n. 67
Hulme, Peter 113, 114, 118 nn. 9, 15, 125 n. 21
Humm, Maggie 113, 130 n. 56
humor and irony 26, 43, 46, 50, 66, 67, 71–72, 78
“Hunger,” 27
“Illusion,” 27
Imperial Road, the 2, 82, 126 n. 40
“In a Café,” 26
In the Castle of My Skin 21
“In the Luxemburg Gardens,” 28
“In the Rue de l’Arrivée,” 29
“Invitation to the Dance,” 102
“I Spy a Stranger,” 102, 103
Jamaica 59, 82, 83, 88
James, Louis 110, 129 n. 38
Jane Eyre 79–80, 81, 82, 86, 109, 112
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer 110, 116
Johnson, Erica L. 116, 132 n. 84
Joseph, Margaret Paul 116, 132 n. 84
Joubert, Claire 115, 131 n. 81
Joyce, James x, 15, 16, 19, 21, 38, 79, 116, 121 n. 16, 125 n. 36
Judd, Alan 121 n. 14
Kappers-den Hollander, Martien 6, 119 n. 33
Kegan, Gardiner, Judith 112, 129 n. 49
Keynes, John Maynard 124 n. 13
Kiberd, Declan 21, 122 n. 28
“Kikimora,” 100
Kincaid, Jamaica 54, 116, 124 n. 18
Kipling, Rudyard 96, 126 n. 48
Kirkaldy, Peggy 9, 19
“Kismet,” 102
Kloepfer, Deborah Kelly 112, 129 n. 48
Kristeva, Julia 112
“Kubla Khan,” 56, 125 n. 23
Kuna, Frank 121 n. 8
Lady Windermere’s Fan 77
“La Grosse Fifi,” 25, 29–30
Lamming, George 21, 109
Latin Quarter, the 28, 29, 40, 73
Lawrence, D. H. 108
“Learning to be a Mother,” 27
Leavis, F. R. 108
Le Gallez, Paula 114, 131 n. 74
Leighton, Angela 120 n. 1
Lenglet, Ella 6–8
Lenglet, Maryvonne 6, 9–10, 13
Lenglet, Willem Johan Marie (Jean) 6, 8, 9, 13, 28, 34, 98, 104, 119 nn. 23, 33, 35, 123 n. 2, 124 n. 9, 126 n. 50, 128 n. 13
Lenglet, William Owen 6, 13, 27, 123 n. 2
Le Pur and L’Impur 18, 122 n. 22
Lessing, Doris 116, 131 n. 82
“Let Them Call It Jazz,” 93–94
Letters 1931–1966 9, 11, 19, 21, 23, 30, 67, 79, 80, 87–88, 91
letters as fictional device 56, 57, 65, 84, 90, 94, 101
“Little Gidding,” 38, 124 n. 8
Lockhart family 118 n. 7
Lockhart, James Potter 2
Lockhart, Jean Maxwell 2
London 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 25, 28, 38, 44–45, 46, 61, 62–63, 71, 72, 74, 77, 93, 94, 97, 98, 104
Look Lai, Wally 112, 113, 130 n. 50
Lovett, Robert Morss 127 n. 5
Lykiard, Alexis 115, 131 n. 76
Macbeth 91
Mair, John 128 n. 11
Malcolm, Cheryl Alexander and David Malcolm 104, 126–127 n. 54
Malherbe, François 91
“Mannequin,” 27, 28
Mansfield, Katherine 106, 127 n. 2
Mardorossian, Carine 114, 130–131 n. 66
Marshall, Paule 110
Martinique 3, 13, 17, 74, 82, 85, 87, 88, 93
masks 49, 50, 60, 70, 74
May, Charles 116, 132 n. 85
Mellown, Elgin 109, 114, 127 n. 1, 128 n. 28
Menand, Louis and Lawrence Rainey 120–121 n. 7
Men Without Women 16
Miguel Street 21
mirrors 63, 71, 72, 90, 93
Milton, John 12, 96
Mister Johnson 21
“Mixing Cocktails,” 2–3, 25, 27
Mizener, Arthur 119 n. 25
modernisms 14–15, 25, 28, 49, 120 nn. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Modigliani, Amedeo 49
money and class 4–5, 28, 30, 39, 49, 55, 60, 62, 63, 65, 68, 69, 72, 76, 77, 78, 81, 83, 87
Montparnasse 25, 26, 28, 29, 37, 38, 39, 40, 44, 73
Morrell, A. C. 104, 126–127 n. 54
Morris, Mervyn 110
Morrison, Toni 116
Mrs Dalloway 19
Mudford, William 56
“My Day,” 104
Naipaul, V. S. 21, 109, 110, 128 n. 29
Nana 54–55, 56, 59–60, 124 n. 19
Napoleon 32
narrative strategies 27, 30–32, 43–44, 53–54, 56, 66–67, 70, 79–81, 81–82, 92–93, 98, 101, 147
Nebeker, Helen 111–112, 129 n. 45
“Night Out, 1925,” 99
obeah and the occult ix, 8, 21–22, 57, 88–90, 97, 114, 125 n. 27, 126 nn. 41, 42
“Obeah Nights,” 21
O’Brien, Kate 128 n. 12
O’Callaghan, Evelyn 113, 130 n. 54
O’Connor, Teresa 56, 125 nn. 21, 24, 126 n. 40
Ohman, Carole 119 n. 30
Olmos, Marguerite Fernández and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert 125 n. 27
“On Not Shooting Sitting Birds,” 98–99
Othello 81
“Outside the Machine,” 14, 93, 96
“Overture and Beginners Please,” 99
Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth 118 n. 11
Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth and Olga Torres-Seda 114, 131 n. 75
Paris 6, 7, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 34, 36, 38, 39, 41, 42, 44, 45, 48, 66, 69, 71, 74, 75, 98, 108, 122 n. 19
pastoral 33, 123–124 n. 7
performers and performance 34, 60, 68, 78, 91
Perkins Gilman, Charlotte 116
Perversité 7, 119 n. 29, 124 n. 15
Piaf, Edith 17–18
Picasso, Pablo 14
Pilgrim’s Progress 12
Pinocchio 32
“Pioneers, Oh, Pioneers,” 100–101
Plante, David 104, 123 n. 32, 127 n. 55
Plasa, Carl 131 n. 71
Poe, Edgar Allan 56
poetry and poetic techniques 23, 31–32, 51, 63, 91, 105, 106
popular songs and music hall 56, 57, 71, 76, 91, 93–94, 111
postcolonial 20–22, 110
postmodern 22, 67
Postures (Quartet) 30
Pound, Ezra 15, 108, 121 n. 16
Quartet 8, 30–43, 44, 54, 57, 66, 67, 73, 106, 123 n. 6
race and racism, ix 2, 3, 8, 13, 15, 17, 28, 29, 58–59, 82, 86–87, 93–95, 101–102, 103, 112–113, 123 n. 34, 126 n. 45
Raiskin, Judith 113, 116, 130 n. 57, 131 n. 71
Ramchand, Kenneth 112, 130 n. 51
“Rapunzel, Rapunzel,” 99
Rees Williams, Edward 11
Rees Williams, Owen 3
Rees Williams, William 2, 118 n. 11
Return of the Native 23
Rhys, Jean, pen name 8
Richelot, Germaine 7
Robinson Crusoe 12
Rodriguez, Ileana 116, 131 n. 83
Rody, Caroline 20, 122 n. 25
rooms 34, 40, 56, 57, 58, 60, 62, 63, 66, 75, 89, 97
Rosenberg, Leah 116, 132 n. 84
Rossetti, Christina 96
Rushdie, Salman 120–121 n. 7
Sage, Lorna 116, 131 n. 82
St Lucia 13
Savory, Elaine 114, 131 n. 68
Schreiner, Olive 116
Scott, Evelyn 9
Selvon, Samuel 21, 109
Senior, Olive 117, 132 n. 87
Shakespeare, William 81, 91
Shaw, George Bernard 45
Seshagiri, Urmilla 129 n. 36
Simpson, Anne 115, 131 n. 80
slavery 2, 3, 44, 60, 69, 77, 81, 82–83, 86, 89
Sleep It Off Lady 11, 98–102, 102, 123 n. 34
“Sleep It Off Lady,” 98, 100
Smile Please 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 13, 19, 20, 23, 53, 90, 104–105
Smith, Lancelot Grey Hugh 4–5, 6, 8, 80, 124 n. 17
Smith, Leslie Tilden 8–10, 23
Smith, Sidonie 20, 22 n. 27
Sous les Verrous 8
Spender, Stephen 45
Spivak, Gayatri 110, 129 n. 35
Staley, Thomas 111, 129 n. 41
Stang, Sondra J. and Karen Cochran 119 n. 26
Stein, Gertrude 15
Sternlicht, Sanford 115, 131 n. 79
Strachey, Lytton 124 n. 13
Swinnerton, Frank 128 n. 11
Tarozzi, Bianca 115, 131 n. 81
“Tea with an Artist,” 28–29
“Temps Perdi,” 102, 103–104, 110
The Arabian Nights 13
“The Bishop’s Feast,” 99, 123 n. 34
“The Black Exercise Book,” 3–4, 23, 118–119 n. 16
“The Blue Bird,” 25, 27, 29
“The Chevalier of the Place Blanche,” 98, 126 n. 50
The Collected Short Stories 2, 6, 13, 15, 26–30, 93, 104
“The Cottage,” 104
“The Day They Burned the Books,” 13, 15, 93, 95
“The Green Exercise Book,” 118 n. 16
“The Imperial Road,” 23, 86, 100, 123 n. 34, 126 n. 40
“The Insect World,” 100
“The Iron Shroud,” 56
The Last of Chéri 17
The Left Bank 8, 13, 14, 25–30, 38, 92, 102, 106, 119 n. 27, 121 n. 12
“The Lotus,” 93, 96, 97
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” 15
“The Orange Exercise Book,” 118 n. 16
“The Red Exercise Books,” 23, 53, 118 n. 6
The Rosary 56
The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism 121 n. 15
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro,” 38
“The Sound of the River,” 92, 95
The Sun Also Rises 15–16
The Torrents of Spring 16
The Waste Land 15, 52, 125 n. 36
“The Whistling Bird,” 102, 126 n. 51
Thieme, John 109, 125 n. 37, 128 n. 24
Things Fall Apart 21
Thurman, Judith 110, 122 n. 19, 129 n. 33
Tiffin, Helen 110, 129 n. 35
Tigers Are Better-Looking 11, 92–98, 102, 121 n. 13
“Tigers Are Better-Looking,” 92, 94–95
“Till September Petronella,” 93, 96
To the Lighthouse 19
“Tout Montparnasse and a Lady,” 26, 28
“Tradition and the Individual Talent,” 15, 121 n. 15
transatlantic review 8, 15, 46, 121 n. 14
Treasure Island 12
“Trio,” 25, 29
“Triple Sec,” 7, 23, 52, 99, 119 n. 21, 124 n. 17
Trinidad 59
Ulysses 15, 79, 125 n. 36
Valéry, Paul 15
vaz Dias, Selma 11
Victoria, Queen 32
Vienna 14, 28
“Vienne,” 15, 28
violence 38, 55, 85
visual arts and design 32, 34, 48–49, 56–57, 75
Voltaire 125 n. 26
Voyage in the Dark 3, 8, 23, 52–66, 67, 72, 76, 78, 79, 84, 86, 87, 106, 111, 119 n. 21, 124 n. 17, 126 n. 50
Walcott, Derek 117, 132 n. 87
Waugh, Alec 107, 128 n. 15
Wells, H. G. 62
West, Rebecca 106, 127 n. 7
Wharton, Edith 116
When the Wicked Man 8, 30, 119 n. 30
“Who Knows What’s Up in the Attic?,” 98, 99
Wide Sargasso Sea 3, 9, 11, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 65, 66, 79–92, 93, 103, 104, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 120 n. 4, 123 n. 34, 130 n. 50
Wilde, Oscar 45, 77, 124 n. 14, 125 n. 35
Williams, William Carlos 15
Williamson, Karin 113, 130 n. 60
Windward Heights 114
Wisker, Gina 130, 56
Wolfe, Peter 111, 129 n. 42
Wollstonecraft, Mary 114
Woolf, Leonard 44, 124 n. 13
Woolf, Virginia 19, 44, 111, 116, 121 n. 9, 124 n. 13
Wordsworth, William 95, 126 n. 47
Wren, Robert 122 n. 29
Wyndham, Francis 11, 87–88, 107, 128 n. 16
Wyndham-Lewis, D. B. 106, 127 n. 4
Yeats, W. B. 62, 121 n. 16
Yoris-Villasana, Corina 115, 131 n. 81
Zola, Emile 54–55, 56, 59–60, 124 n. 19
zombi 77, 89–90, 101, 126 n. 42