Intro -- fig9 -- 1 Identity in the Postcolonial Paradigm: Key Concepts -- 1.1 Cultural Identity and Diaspora -- 1.2 Types of Cultural Identity -- 1.3 Hybridity versus Cultural Alterity -- 1.4 The Postcolonial Social Contract and Caribbean Modernism -- 1.5 The Caribbean (Is) landscape as Homeland -- 1.6 Caribbean Cultural Creolization -- 1.7 Imagining the "Black Atlantic": Trans-Racial Identity -- 2 Jean Rhys' Exoticism and the Colonial Imperialism -- 2.1 Empire, Postcolonialism and Postcolonial Identity -- 2.2 British Caribbean: Re-envisioning Cultural Identity -- 2.3 Exoticness in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea -- 3 Constructing Cultural Identity in Jean Rhys' Fiction -- 3.1 Ethnocentrism versus Eurocentrism -- 3.2 Ethnicity, Identity, Masculinity -- 3.3 Fractal Identity -- 4 Jean Rhys and Intertextuality -- 4.1 Authorship -- 4.2 (Postcolonial) Intratext and (Metaphorical) Intertext -- 4.3 Intertextual Metaphors -- 5 Narrative Discourse in Jean Rhys' Fiction -- 5.1 (Power-)Text -- 5.2 (Pre-)Text -- 5.3 (Power-)Textualization -- 6 Final Conclusions.

Exploring Cultural Identities in Jean Rhys's Writings seeks to circumscribe Jean Rhys's work within a paradigm that reflects the search for a cultural identity so specific to postcolonial literature. The book carries out an examination of the relationship between hybrid identities, self and otherness and of several situations of existential ambivalence that work on the border between sign (colonial difference) and symbol (imperial authority).

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