The late Dominica-born writer Jean Rhys, best known for her novel “ Wide Sargasso Sea” - a creatively daring, strongly feminist, and brazenly anti-colonial counter to Charlotte Brontë's “ Jane Eyre” - is considered an integral part of the literary canon, but what makes her so great? Screenshot taken from the livestream of the event. Moderator Shahidha Bari (top left) discusses the impact of the late writer Jean Rhys on Caribbean literature with United States’ writer, translator and academic Lauren Elkin (top right), British novelist and journalist Linda Grant (bottom left), and Trinidadian poet and book blogger Shivanee Ramlochan (bottom right) during an online event on Novemfacilitated by the Royal Society of Literature, the NGC Bocas Lit Fest and the British Library.
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