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Wide Sargasso Sea marks with uncanny clarity the limits of its own discourse in Christophine, Antoinette's black nurse. We may perhaps surmise the distance between Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea by remarking that Christophine's unfinished story is the tangent to the latter narrative, as St. John Rivers' story is to the former.
- Levine
The Pattern: Frankenstein and Austen to Conrad George Levine...
- Gilbert
Horror's Twin: Mary Shelley's Monstrous Eve Sandra M....
- Johnson
All three of these books, in strikingly diverse ways, offer...
- Jacobus
Notes 1. See Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious...
- Frankenstein, 1831, Vol. 3, Chap. 6, Frame 6
Nor did my hate long confine itself to useless wishes; I...
- Ruins of Empires
The Ruins, Or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires: And...
- Contexts
Contexts -- Imperialism???
- Levine
Mar 13, 2015 · Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism. Spivak, Gayatri C. It should not be possible to read nineteenth-century British literature without remembering that imperialism, understood as England's social mission, was a crucial part of the cultural representation of England to the English.
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- 1985
Tammy Lai-Ming Ho Contesting (Post-)colonialism: Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea and Three Neo-Victorian Rejoinders, (Feb 2019): 7–54.
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- 1985
Feb 22, 2024 · In this essay, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak explores the connection between nineteenth-century British literature, imperialism, and feminist criticism. She emphasizes the role of literature in shaping cultural representations, particularly England's social mission as imperialistic.
I read Wide Sargasso Sea as Jane Eyre’s reinscription and Frankenstein as an analysis—even a deconstruction—of a “worlding” such as Jane Eyre’s.3 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is Longstreet Professor of English at Emory University.
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- 1985
Apr 7, 2017 · A more literary approach is taken in ‘ Three Women’s Texts and a Critique of Imperialism ’ (1985) – looking at Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea and Frankenstein – where feminist readings are re-examined by Spivak.
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is a public intellectual for whom the overlooked exploitation and oppression of the subalterns in the postcolonial world is not only an ethical dilemma, but also a methodological challenge.