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- Wide Sargasso Sea is a postcolonial novel that serves as a prequel and reinterpretation of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
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The field known as "Post-Colonial Studies" gained recognition as an academic discipline in the 1960s, the same decade in which Jean Rhys penned Wide Sargasso Sea. Today the novella is regarded as one of the most famous examples to emerge from a revisionist school of literary interpretation known as "post-colonialism."
Sep 1, 2014 · Despite the fact that the story retold in Wide Sargasso Sea on the surface seems to be a pathetic love story of a Creole woman who goes crazy due to unrequited love in her marriage to an...
Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel by Dominican-British author Jean Rhys. The novel serves as a postcolonial and feminist prequel to Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre (1847), describing the background to Mr. Rochester's marriage from the point-of-view of his wife Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress.
- October 1966
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Mar 11, 2018 · However, Wide Sargasso Sea, though a postcolonial novel, is much more complex in terms of the identity of a nation and nationhood as the main character of the novel, Antoinette, is a white Creole inhabitant of Jamaica just after the emancipation act is passed; she is at once neither English nor Jamaican, and is home in a nation that is not her ...
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. Back. More. Intro. As good postcolonialist Shmoopers, we can't mention Jane Eyre without bringing up Jean Rhys' retelling of Bertha Mason's story, Wide Sargasso Sea.
Wide Sargasso Sea, novel by Jean Rhys, published in 1966. A well-received work of fiction, it takes its theme and main character from the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. The book details the life of Antoinette Mason (known in Jane Eyre as Bertha), a West Indian who marries an unnamed man in.
Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea is a product of the modern postcolonialism and the use of language she does represents her extraordinary ability to subvert the ideologies of the West, deconstructing the European discourse and monocentrism.
