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Mar 14, 2024 · 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.
Oct 20, 2016 · Wide Sargasso Sea turned Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel inside out. As the book celebrates its 50th anniversary, Hephzibah Anderson explains its enduring power. A while ago, and for more...
Jean Rhys, Edwidge Danticat (Introduction) 3.59. 93,325 ratings8,313 reviews. Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center stage. She had a startling early career and was known for her extraordinary prose and haunting women characters.
As a reimagining of one of Jane Eyre’s most mysterious characters, Wide Sargasso Sea offers a more nuanced look at the sociopolitical forces that drive a woman like Antoinette to madness. Rhys calls attention to the harmful impacts of colonialism and patriarchal values by depicting Antoinette’s struggle to maintain agency in a world which ...
Jean Rhys. Wide Sargasso Sea Full Book Summary. Previous Next. Antoinette's story begins when she is a young girl in early nineteenth- century Jamaica. The white daughter of ex-slave owners, she lives on a run-down plantation called Coulibri Estate.
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.
Part 1. Antoinette Cosway, a creole, or Caribbean person of European descent, recounts her memories of growing up at her family’s estate, Coulibri, in Jamaica in the 1830‘s.
