Literary modernism is a movement which develops in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The eartquake in the arts, music, painting, architecture and literature results in modernism challenging its essential elements. Literary modernism rejects elements of traditional realism or precisely chronological plots, continuous narratives, omniscient narrators and closed endings and introduces new elements such as stream-of-consciousness technique, fragmentation, irony, juxtaposition, satire, reflexiveness, discontinous narrative, random-seeming collages of disparate materials, omniscient external narration, fixed narrative points of view, clear-cut moral positions and blurring of the distinctions between genres. Along with Virginia Woolf and Dorothy Richardson, …show more content…
In 1958 it joined the West Indies Federation.. After the short-lived federation dissolved, Dominica became an associated state of the United Kingdom. In 1978, Dominica finally gained independence. Jean Rhys’s work is mostly about questions of identity, ethnicity, and language of the Caribbean historical experience. Her bildungsroman is not a typical biography of a girl who wanders through Europe and whose conception of a race was complicated because she has a white creole mother of Scottish ancestry and Welsh father. Voyage in the Dark marks the turning point in literature where the form of literary modernism demonstrates lineaments of postcolonial fiction. Her journey eventually stops in London, which at the turn of the twentieth century, is not only a symbol of art, colonial power and wealth (colonization and industrialization) but also a desirable destination for most Caribbean writers such as Jean Rhys. Decision to leave her white Anglican Roseau and make a living in a place she is not able to map cognitevely costs her dearly. The capital city or world city, however, becomes one of the central points in Voyage in the Dark and the main theme of