About this Book

"Building on this complex concept of home generated by this comparatist framework, the author examines the concept of home in the novels of Jean Rhys, Marguerite Duras, and Erminia Dell'Oro, writers who grew up in the colonial contexts of British Dominica, French Indochina, and Italian Eritrea, respectively. As young women, all three writers were repatriated to European "homelands" unfamiliar to them. Far from resorting to nostalgic narratives of their childhoods in the colonies, however, Rhys, Duras, and Dell'Oro present fractured, often ambivalent memories of the lands of their births in their writing."--BOOK JACKET.