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"Qui est là?": Negative Personhood in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 50, Number 2, June 2017
- pp. 171-186
- 10.1353/mos.2017.a663696
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
Coined by Colin Dayan to designate subjects disabled or rendered civilly dead by law, "negative personhood" haunts Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. This essay considers Rhys's exploration of the violent legacy of slavery that persists post-emancipation under patriarchal and legal regimes.
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