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"Why Do We Laugh When We Should Cry?...Is It Only Here In This Sad Island?": Gender, Affect, And Empire In Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea And Johnston's Fool's Sanctuary, Kylie Dennis
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British colonial literature has produced no shortage of the silent woman: she has surfaced in a variety of disguises as the domestic wife, the colonial woman, and the mysterious, exoticized other. For contemporary women writers interested in countries occupied by British forces, the prominence of the silent woman has produced a dilemma of writing agentic female characters and women's voices into literature without centuries of historical precedent for doing so. For Jean Rhys and Jennifer Johnston, dissatisfaction with the representation of women's narratives has inspired novels that engage with iconic colonial women, revising their stories and reconsidering the space for …