Under the command of Captain Eric DeHaan, she sails for the Intelligence Division of the British Royal Navy, and she will load detection equipment for a clandestine operation on the Swedish coast–a secret mission, a dark voyage.Ī desperate voyage. She is the Noordendam, a Dutch freighter. She is the Santa Rosa, she flies the flag of neutral Spain and is in Lisbon to load cork oak, tinned sardines, and drums of cooking oil bound for the Baltic port of Malmö.īut she is not the Santa Rosa. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp freighter steams up the Tagus River to dock at the port of Lisbon. It was the job of the Intelligence Division of the Royal Navy to stop it, and so, on the last day of April 1941. These forms of exclusion function at the levels of discourse and narrative I would argue that Anna's position is not, therefore, a product of realist character 'flaws' but rather that her discursive placement within the novel offers insight into the ways in which colonialism and sexism function in terms of textuality.“In the first nineteen months of European war, from September 1939 to March of 1941, the island nation of Britain and her allies lost, to U-boat, air, and sea attack, to mines and maritime disaster, one thousand five hundred and ninety-six merchant vessels. Imbricated within these is the question of gender, which functions to place Anna in a position of double-exclusion within the text. Anna is textually constrained on three levels, which may be defined as economic, colonialist, and narrative. Rather than personal failings, it is Anna's gender and colonial status which prevent her from participating fully in the dominant social and economic order of Voyage in the Dark. Anna Morgan, the central character of Jean Rhys's Voyage in the Dark, has previously been read as a victim of her own inability to fashion some form of life for herself.1 It is possible, however, to suggest an alternative to such character-based readings and instead examine the systems of oppression which work to ensure that Anna remains an excluded, marginalized subject.
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