Critics WSS

The Creoles' identity is defined by negatives.

– Angela Smith on the creoles

Maritza Stanchich on name

Antoinette’s first name, now under assault with the same whims that originally changed her surname from Cosway to Mason.

Francis Wyndham on death

Rochester has also died the ,real, death

Francis Wyndham on identity

Her only positive feeling of personal identity comes from Coulibri and Granbois, but

Mason usurps the first and Rochester the second.

Angela smith on the men

Mason and Rochester both demand that those around them should play the parts they would have in England'

What haunts the reader of this text is the knowledge of what will happen to Antoinette.

– Angela Smith on the reader

Both Antoinette and her mother are ghosts in their own lifetimes.

– Francis Wyndham on mom and daughter

A passive victim.

– Walter Allen on Antoinette

Multi-voices and the eternal ‘they’ give several perspectives.

– Laura Fish on they

The uncanny control he exercises over her derives from his power as a patriarchal Victorian.

– Angela Smith on Rochester and the patrichy

He has reduced his wife, who loves him, to a spiritless shell.

– Angela Smith on R & A

– A feminine style of writing which involves text disruptions to undermine the phallocentric language.

Ecriture Feminine