SOURCE: "Man the Enemy," in The Female Form: Women Writers and the Conquest of the Novel, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1987, pp. 132-47.
In the following excerpt, Miles discusses the depiction of female alienation and social subjugation in Rhys's fiction. "In the work of Jean Rhys," writes Miles, "female self-distrust and despair finds its extremest voice."
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