"BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF": JEAN RHYS'S VERSION OF NATURALISM IN "AFTER LEAVING MR MACKENZIE"

Among Jean Rhys's novels, After Leaving Mr Mackenzie (1931) has proved to be null most resistant to null blandishments of critical attention. Many critics simply do not know what to make of null protagonist whom Molly Hite, for example, calls the most thoroughly unsettling of null Rhys women.3 Moreover, those critics who concentrate on neo-colonialist and feminist themes find few tropes of exile or liberation to extrapolate from null grim,...