After seeing a play based on Dominican writer Jean Rhys's “remarkably screwed up life”, Jamaican novelist Marlon James wonders: “Must every great artist have a self hating streak? Didn't Jean Rhys transfer hers to writing and Naipaul to everybody just like him? Is happiness a false goal for an artist? [1]“
Jamaica, Dominica: Jean Rhys's “remarkably screwed up life”
· Written by Georgia Popplewell
Categories: Caribbean, Dominica, Jamaica, Disaster, Ideas, Literature