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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.
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.
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May 29, 2019 · When Wide Sargasso Sea, her last novel, was published, Jean Rhys (24 August 1890 – 14 May 1979) was described in The New York Times as the greatest living novelist. Such praise is overstated, but Rhys’s fiction, long overlooked by academic critics, is undergoing a revival spurred by feminist studies.
Wide Sargasso Sea was published in 1966 during a time where novels challenging the normalities of the time were common (for example, Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan is credited for sparking the second wave feminist movement in 1963).
Apr 2, 2017 · In the novel W ide Sargasso Sea, the “symbolic” gets entangled with the language and social laws of the patriarchal “white male” perspective of Antoinette’ s father and husband.
Oct 20, 2016 · Brontë’s Rochester is depicted as dark and brooding but in Wide Sargasso Sea, he morphs from a romantic lead into a callous villain, cowardly and bullying at the same time, a man who weds for...
That Wide Sargasso Sea is a rewriting of Jane Eyre—a text long upheld as a triumph of feminist liberalism—complicates the feminist debate. Rhys's text also invites psychoanalytic readings, through its experimentation with narrative and exploration of the unconscious.
