We remain part creole, part colonial, seeking many-ancestoried conclusions. Our tides flow down the river, meet a holy but not wholly receptive sea. —Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Contradictory Omens, 1974 [1] “Well, I’m going to tell you something I’ve never told anyone else,” Jean Rhys, shortly before her death in 1979, said to David Plante, as he relates it in Difficult Women (1983). [2] Rhys cautioned that the story would sound familiar; however, she had told him “part of it, but not all” (Plante...