![]() She associated black life with color and vigor, while she characterized whiteness as often hollow and barren. She was particularly intrigued by black culture and the colonial aspects of life in the islands. Growing up in Dominica, an island of the Lesser Antilles, Rhys was heavily influenced by her mother’s Creole cultural background, and would later manifest this in her writing. She later adopted her father’s name as her own surname. ![]() Rhys was born in Roseau, Dominica, to her father Rhys Williams, a doctor of Welsh descent, and her mother, Minna Lockhart, a third-generation Dominican Creole whose family had owned a plantation that was burned down after the 1830 Emancipation Act. Her fiction was autobiographical in nature, often dealing with the theme of a helpless female, an outsider, who is victimized by her dependence on an older man for support and protection. Rhys's Creole heritage, her experiences as a white Creole woman, both in the Caribbean and in England, influenced her life and writing. ![]()
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