all fiction is critical fiction
Posted in definitions, distinctions, Jean Rhys, Precursors, Wendy Walker, ‘I disdain “categories”’ on Mar 29th, 2012
To the Editor of the TLS Sir, Part of the task of the reviewer is to consider the book at hand as literature, that is, a written work that functions within a context. One part of that context is the history of earlier works that will illuminate the book under review. Context also reveals the […]
Posted in definitions, Jean Rhys, Jorge Luis Borges, Precursors, Wendy Walker, ‘I disdain “categories”’ on Dec 7th, 2011
Here is the introduction to Wendy Walker’s new book, My Man and other Critical Fictions (For a full size view click on individual pages, or for a full size pdf view click here). To buy the book, follow the My Man tab up top. [HWW]
Posted in Jean Rhys, ‘I disdain “categories”’ on May 8th, 2011
— Jean Rhys [pseudonym of Ella Gwendoline Rees Williams, 1890-1979]. Wide Sargasso Sea. Introduction by Francis Wyndham. André Deutsch, 1966. Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette Cosway, Creole heiress to lands in Jamaica and Dominica, who grows up almost a feral child on the ruined estate of Coulibri in Jamaica. It is a […]