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Jean Rhys

a critical study
Reviews and critics the works of Jean Rhys.

Nightmare island

Twelve-year-old Serenity has a recurring nightmare, but things get real when her parents take her brother, Peace, to Duppy Island for "treatment" and Serenity is confronted by the creepy Dr. Whisper and the faceless douen children who are trapped between the living and the dead.
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Hurricane dancers

the first Caribbean pirate shipwreck
2014
Quebrado has been a slave on captain Bernadino de Talavera's pirate ship for years, but when a hurricane sinks the ship and kills most of the crew, Quebrado escapes to safety and finds acceptance and refuge in a nearby village.
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Hurricane dancers

the first Caribbean pirate shipwreck
Quebrado has been a slave on captain Bernadino de Talavera's pirate ship for years, but when a hurricane sinks the ship and kills most of the crew, Quebrado escapes to safety and finds acceptance and refuge in a nearby village.

The secret footprints

A story based on Dominican folklore, about the ciguapas, a tribe of beautiful underwater people whose feet are attached backwards, with their toes pointing in the direction from which they have come.

Wide Sargasso Sea

Inspired by, but independent of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, the story of the first Mrs. Rochester, the mad wife in Charlotte Bront??'s Jane Eyre.

Slave stealers

true accounts of slave rescues then and now
2018
Tells the of two different people, centuries apart, escaping slavery.

Encounter

1992
A Taino Indian boy on the island of San Salvador recounts the landing of Columbus and his men in 1492.

The indigenous people of the Caribbean

1997
Nineteen Caribbean specialists profile the native people of the Caribbean region, discussing their social organization, religion, language, lifestyle, and cultural contributions.

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