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  1. 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.

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      The Pattern: Frankenstein and Austen to Conrad George Levine...

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      Horror's Twin: Mary Shelley's Monstrous Eve Sandra M....

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      All three of these books, in strikingly diverse ways, offer...

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      Notes 1. See Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious...

  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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.

  5. 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
  6. 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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  8. 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.