{"id":7981,"date":"2010-07-12T22:34:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T22:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7981"},"modified":"2015-12-22T03:53:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T03:53:04","slug":"race-creole-and-national-identities-in-rhys%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9cwide-sargasso-sea%e2%80%9d-and-phillips%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9ccambridge%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7981","title":{"rendered":"Race, Creole, and National Identities in Rhys\u2019s \u201cWide Sargasso Sea\u201d and Phillips\u2019s \u201cCambridge\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/smx.2006.0035\" target=\"_blank\">Race, Creole, and National Identities in Rhys\u2019s \u201cWide Sargasso Sea\u201d and Phillips\u2019s \u201cCambridge\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/small_axe\" target=\"_blank\">Small Axe<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/small_axe\/toc\/smx10.3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Number 21 (Volume 10, Number 3)<\/a><br \/>\nOctober 2006<br \/>\npages 87-104<br \/>\nE-ISSN: 1534-6714, Print ISSN: 0799-0537<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/smx.2006.0035\" target=\"_blank\">10.1353\/smx.2006.0035<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiana.edu\/~complit\/people\/halloran.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Vivian Nun Halloran<\/a><\/strong>, Assoiate Professor of Comparative Literature<br \/>\n<em>Indiana University, Bloomington<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As postmodern historical novels dramatizing slavery and its legacy in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/English-speaking_world\" target=\"_blank\">anglophone<\/a> Caribbean islands, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean_Rhys\" target=\"_blank\">Jean Rhys&#8217;s<\/a> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wide_Sargasso_Sea\" target=\"_blank\">Wide Sargasso Sea<\/a><\/em> (1966) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carylphillips.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Caryl Phillips&#8217;s<\/a> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carylphillips.com\/cambridge.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cambridge<\/a><\/em> (1993) problematize Englishness as a national and cultural identity that may or may not be dependent upon race and also reject the Creole as an identity subordinate in status to that of European. By questioning the prevailing nineteenth century assumption of an inherent relationship linking the observable geographical boundaries of a state and the essential character of its national culture, <em>Cambridge<\/em> destabilizes Englishness as a homogeneous racial signifier for whiteness in its depiction of London as a bustling metropolis with a small but visible population of Black Britons, while <em>Wide Sargasso Sea<\/em> portrays Creole Jamaican society, black and white, at a moment of crisis, on the eve of the arrival of the first wave of indentured servants from India. Both novels suggest that social demarcations between English and Creole cultural identities are artificial because they ultimately depend on chance &#8212; on the geographical accident of a given person&#8217;s or character&#8217;s place of birth&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/small_axe\/v011\/11.1halloran.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race, Creole, and National Identities in Rhys\u2019s \u201cWide Sargasso Sea\u201d and Phillips\u2019s \u201cCambridge\u201d Small Axe Number 21 (Volume 10, Number 3) October 2006 pages 87-104 E-ISSN: 1534-6714, Print ISSN: 0799-0537 DOI: 10.1353\/smx.2006.0035 Vivian Nun Halloran, Assoiate Professor of Comparative Literature Indiana University, Bloomington As postmodern historical novels dramatizing slavery and its legacy in the anglophone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,1196,8],"tags":[3324,3323,3320,3322,3321],"class_list":["post-7981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-caryl-phillips","tag-jean-rhys","tag-small-axe","tag-vivian-halloran","tag-vivian-nun-halloran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44692,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7981\/revisions\/44692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}