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Reading Jean Rhys’s “The Imperial Road” (2001) in the context of Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Journey” (1934) and Fanny Kemble’s  Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation  (1863) enables us to see how all three were attempting to write against White racism in different eras whilst still themselves not free of its cultural indoctrination. Kemble has to be understood in the context of British and American battles for Abolition, a cause in which white women could engage if they chose, giving them a role evidently on the side of justice but also distant from the discomfort of witnessing the plantation. Porter and Rhys are complicated because their work and their lives reveal both rejection of racism and racist cultural prejudices. They are also different, Rhys chronologically further away from ancestral connection to the plantation than Porter and Caribbean rather than American born and raised. Reading these three writers together provokes important questions about how and why white women write race in different historical and cultural spaces.

What can be said and not said, is known and not known: race and the work of Jean Rhys, Fanny Kemble and Katherine Anne Porter