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The specter of slavery and entrapment pervades Wide Sargasso Sea. The ex-slaves who worked on the sugar plantations of wealthy Creoles figure prominently in Part One of the novel, which is set in the West Indies in the early nineteenth century. Although the Emancipation Act has freed the slaves by the time of Antoinette’s childhood ...
Jul 15, 2014 · When she is a child, the family mansion is torched and a girl whom she wants to be her friend throws a rock at her head – incidents that resound with distorted echoes of Jane Eyre. There is ...
Wide Sargasso Sea, published in 1966 toward the end of Jean Rhys 's writing career, was the most successful of Rhys's literary works. The novel was well received when it was first published and has never been out of print. It also continues to draw the interest of academics and literary critics today.
Jan 25, 2016 · Jean Rhys (1890–1979), one of the foremost writers of the twentieth century, is the author of Wide Sargasso Sea —her last and best-known novel—as well as After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie, Voyage in the Dark, and Good Morning, Midnight, all available in Norton paperback. This “tour de force” (New York Times Book Review) celebrates its 50th ...
Wide Sargasso Sea: Part 1 Summary & Analysis. The novel opens with Antoinette ’s narration, looking back at her childhood in 1830’s post-Emancipation Jamaica. Antoinette and her family are isolated, socially and geographically. Antoinette explains that their exclusion from white society is a result of disapproval by “the Jamaican ladies ...
Jean Rhys dropped from sight until nearly twenty years later she was discovered living reclusively in Cornwall. During those years she had accumulated the stories collected in Tigers are Better-Looking. In 1966 she made a sensational reappearance with Wide Sargasso Sea, which won the Royal Society of Literature Award and the W. H. Smith Award.
Wide Sargasso Sea gives a voice to Brontë’s madwoman in the attic, one of her most mysterious characters. Rhys imagines what Antoinette’s life is like before her arrival at Thornfield Hall and humanizes her struggle in a way that Brontë could not. Through this process, Rhys also calls greater attention to the themes of colonialism that ...
