William’s Wife Jacqueline Bishop through fiction

through fiction

Those poems that are set in England are almost wholly defined by Jamaican absences

whom the author decides to grant a new lease of life

Margaret Obank The World’s Embrace by Abdellatif Laâbi

William’s Wife Jacqueline Bishop through fictionWhen Jane marries the elderly grocer William Chirp, she thinks she has moved up into the comfort of middle class. Instead, she discovers that William exerts a control over her life that forces her to live like a prisoner. His tight fistedness and suspicions so affect Jane that even after his death, she finds herself trapped in a penny pinching paranoia and resorts to scavenging for food out of garbage bins and taking her silverware with her everywhere