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  1. www.sparknotes.com › lit › sargassoWide Sargasso Sea: Full Book Summary | SparkNotes

    A short summary of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of Wide Sargasso Sea.

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    Part One takes place in Coulibri, a sugar plantation in Jamaica, and is narrated by Antoinette as a child. Formerly wealthy, since the abolition of slavery, the estate has become derelict and her family has been plunged into poverty.

  4. www.litcharts.com › lit › wide-sargasso-seaWide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys Plot Summary | LitCharts

    Get all the key plot points of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea on one page. From the creators of SparkNotes.

  5. www.supersummary.com › wide-sargasso-seaWide Sargasso Sea Summary and Study Guide | SuperSummary

    Wide Sargasso Sea is divided into three parts. Part One takes place in Jamaica during the 1830s shortly after Great Britain passed the Emancipation Act and ended slavery in its West Indian colonies. Antoinette Cosway, the protagonist, narrates this section and chronicles her early life on her family’s Coulibri Estate.

  6. www.litcharts.com › lit › wide-sargasso-seaWide Sargasso Sea Study Guide | Literature Guide | LitCharts

    Wide Sargasso Sea, which takes place in colonized Jamaica and deals with problems of identity and inequality that arose as a result of French and British colonization in the Caribbean, was completed and published during an era of widespread decolonization.

  7. www.gradesaver.com › wide-sargasso-sea › study-guideWide Sargasso Sea Summary | GradeSaver

    by Jean Rhys. Buy Study Guide. Wide Sargasso Sea Summary. Wide Sargasso Sea begins in Jamaica after the Emancipation Act of 1833, under which Britain outlawed slavery in all its colonies.

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  9. literariness.org › 2019/05/29 › analysis-of-jeanAnalysis of Jean Rhys’s Novel Wide Sargasso Sea

    May 29, 2019 · Wide Sargasso Sea. Wide Sargasso Sea requires a familiarity with Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847). In Brontë’s novel, Jane is prevented from marrying Rochester by the presence of a madwoman in the attic, his insane West Indian wife who finally perishes in the fire which she sets, burning Rochester’s house and blinding him, but ...