Diaspora and Identity Construction: Memory Writing in Voyage in the Dark

Memory is the reflection of real-life situation and can present a sense self identity, which has always been an unavoidable element in writings diasporic writers. Taking memory writing Jane Rhys’ Voyage Dark as entry point, this paper attempts to interpret that appear by combining with cultural memory, landscape identity theory. By about heroine Anna Morgan’s memories West Indies, Rhys analyzes how tries pursue her self-identity awakeness herself. walking through two scenes cultures living gap between cultures, establish belongings, looking for spiritual homeland. uses modernist skills such stream consciousness multiple spatial juxtaposition make novel, expressing subversion white Creole women colonial discourse identification construction self-identity.