A View of the Empire at Sunset

Erica Johnson is chair and professor of English at Pace University in New York City. She is the author or co-editor of several books, including most recently Memory as Colonial Capital (2017) and Jean Rhys: Twenty-First-Century Approaches (2015). Her new book, Affect and the Cultural Memory of Race, Memoir and Memorials, will be published in 2018.

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Writing an Outpost of the British Empire: Caryl Phillips and Jean Rhys

"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain

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Erica Johnson is chair and professor of English at Pace University in New York City. She is the author or co-editor of several books, including most recently Memory as Colonial Capital (2017) and Jean Rhys: Twenty-First-Century Approaches (2015). Her new book, Affect and the Cultural Memory of Race, Memoir and Memorials, will be published in 2018.

Erica Johnson

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Writing an Outpost of the British Empire: Caryl Phillips and Jean Rhys