A Study Of The Tragedy Of Anna Morgan’s Life In Voyage In The Dark From The Perspective Of Post-colonial Feminism

Jean Rhys is pre-eminent among English writers at her time.As a writer who grows up in the British colonies,Rhys is keenly aware of the plight of a Creole woman.She has wrote a series of novels relating to this theme and won the attention of many readers and researchers.The thesis centers on one of her representative works,Voyage in the Dark,in which Rhys depicts the double degeneration of both the body and spirit of innocent Creole woman Anna Morgan after losing virginity and love.As a white Creole,Anna,due to her West Indian upbringing as a descendant of former slave owners,is reduced to a voiceless “other” doubly effaced under colonial and patriarchal oppression like the third-world women described by Gayatri Spivak.Therefore,this thesis,in virtue of the post-colonial feminist theory,makes an in-depth analysis of Anna’s dilemma of being excluded as the other in the post-colonial period,and tries to prove that it is the imperial colonial oppression and patriarchal oppression,as well as Anna’s weak character formed under the double oppression that combine to drive her into tragedy.The analysis of this thesis is proposed to reveal Rhys’ s criticism of the oppression imposed on the white Creole women by the dark society at that time,so that readers can view this typical post-colonial feminist text more objectively,and thus further understand her Creole feelings.