{"id":10,"date":"2025-09-09T19:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=10"},"modified":"2025-09-09T19:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:05:00","slug":"literature-belongs-to-the-past-and-the-present-hilton-als-on-jean-rhys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLiterature Belongs to the Past and the Present\u201d: Hilton Als on Jean Rhys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/16599\/hilton-als-jean-rhys-exhibition-interview?utm_source=Linkamp;utm_medium=Linkamp;utm_campaign=RSSFeedamp;utm_term=literature-belongs-to-the-past-and-the-present-hilton-als-on-jean-rhys\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/786\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/3\/463670.jpeg\" alt=\"Hilton Als by Ali Smith\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jean Rhys<\/strong><span> refused categorisation.<\/span><span> Born in the late 1800s to a Welsh father and third-generation Creole mother in Dominica, Rhys was a white child in a primarily Black society.<\/span><span> While she came to Europe in her teens, variously moving between France, the UK and the Netherlands, <\/span><span>her writing retained a rich understanding of the place and culture of her birth. Her stories are full of complicated women, exploring the experience of exilehellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/16599\/hilton-als-jean-rhys-exhibition-interview?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=literature-belongs-to-the-past-and-the-present-hilton-als-on-jean-rhys\">read more raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14291\/postures-jean-rhys-in-the-modern-world\/0?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=literature-belongs-to-the-past-and-the-present-hilton-als-on-jean-rhys\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-227-2400-1600\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/3\/463663.jpeg\" alt=\"Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World Hilton Als\"\/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14291\/postures-jean-rhys-in-the-modern-world\/1?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=literature-belongs-to-the-past-and-the-present-hilton-als-on-jean-rhys\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-175-2859-1906\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/3\/463660.jpeg\" alt=\"Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World Hilton Als\"\/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14291\/postures-jean-rhys-in-the-modern-world\/2?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=literature-belongs-to-the-past-and-the-present-hilton-als-on-jean-rhys\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-209-2961-1974\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/3\/463662.jpeg\" alt=\"Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World Hilton Als\"\/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14291\/postures-jean-rhys-in-the-modern-world\/3?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=literature-belongs-to-the-past-and-the-present-hilton-als-on-jean-rhys\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-1068-2136-1424\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/3\/463667.jpeg\" alt=\"Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World Hilton Als\"\/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14291\/postures-jean-rhys-in-the-modern-world\/4?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=literature-belongs-to-the-past-and-the-present-hilton-als-on-jean-rhys\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-272-2094-1396\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/3\/463666.jpeg\" alt=\"Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World Hilton Als\"\/><\/a>nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14291\/postures-jean-rhys-in-the-modern-world\/5?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=literature-belongs-to-the-past-and-the-present-hilton-als-on-jean-rhys\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-prod.anothermag.com\/138\/0-97-2394-1596\/azure\/another-prod\/460\/3\/463669.jpeg\" alt=\"Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World Hilton Als\"\/><\/a>nbsp;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anothermag.com\/art-photography\/gallery\/14291\/postures-jean-rhys-in-the-modern-world\/0?utm_source=Linkutm_medium=Linkutm_campaign=RSSFeedutm_term=literature-belongs-to-the-past-and-the-present-hilton-als-on-jean-rhys\">View Gallery (12 images)<\/a>nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Rhys refused categorisation. Born in the late 1800s to a Welsh father and third-generation Creole mother in Dominica, Rhys was a white child in a primarily Black society. While she came to Europe in her teens, variously moving between&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tadoley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}