“I would never really belong anywhere, and I knew it,” wrote Jean Rhys in her autobiography, “and all my life would be the same, trying to belong, and failing.” Born in Dominica in 1890, the novelist lived there until she was 16, when she was sent to live with her aunt in England. Yet Rhys never let go of her native Caribbean island, and her longing for the tropics became the subject of many of her books—among them, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. A fixture in postcolonial writing, Rhys offered a refreshing Creole lens that would influence fellow Caribbean-born writers such as Jamaica Kincaid, Derek Walcott, and Caryl Phillips. The exhibition “Postures” sets the life of Rhys within a framework of Caribbean arts and letters. —Carolina de Armas