Women in the Looking-Glass: Post-Colonial and Psychoanalytical Techniques in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha J. Despain
Keyword(s):  
Sargasso Sea ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Wide Sargasso Sea ◽  
Looking Glass

scholarly journals “Madwoman in the Post-Colonial Era” A Study of the Female Voice in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 236
Author(s):  
Nushrat Azam
Keyword(s):  
Jean Rhys ◽  
Female Voice ◽  
Female Character ◽  
Sargasso Sea ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Written Text ◽  
Wide Sargasso Sea ◽  
Voice And Silence

This paper seeks to analyze the mediums and effects of voice and silence in the life of a female character of the re-written post-colonial text Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea. The analysis shows how a re-written text can give a new meaning to a character and story of a novel, where the character of Antoinette tells the untold story of Bertha in Jane Eyre. The method of investigation for this research is analytical and descriptive; the research was completed by analyzing the events, actions and the interactions of the female character, Antoinette with the other major characters in the novel in order to identify how the character of Antoinette was portrayed throughout the novel. It is understood through the study of the text, that the post-colonial novel gave the female voice much more importance than its previous counterpart. This represents the early post-colonial times during which women were starting to gain liberation but had still not completely moved on from the notions of patriarchal societies that they had grown up in.

scholarly journals Post-Colonial Perspective of Identity in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

Philologia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (18) ◽  
pp. 77-86
Author(s):  
Lutfi Abbas Lutfi
Keyword(s):  
Sargasso Sea ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Wide Sargasso Sea

Representation’s Coup

2018 ◽  
pp. 95-123
Author(s):  
David Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Sargasso Sea ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Wide Sargasso Sea

Commencing with a critique of Gayatri Spivak’s “Can the Subaltern Speak?”, “Representation’s Coup” explores the regime of representation through a reading of Marx’s I8th Brumaire. It argues that representation has historically been the means by which the intellectual has mediated the relation of subjects to the state. Where the Savage or the Negro stand at the threshold of humanity in the developmental narrative of representation, the Subaltern is radically exterior, unavailable for identification or assimilation, and troubles the ethical self-identification of the intellectual as representative figure of the human. The chapter concludes with Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, seeing it as an allegory of the failure of identification with the racialized subaltern. The breakdown of novelistic representation in this modernist work correlates to a post-colonial crisis in the overarching regime of representation that frames it.

"Like in a Looking-Glass": History and Narrative in Wide Sargasso Sea

1989 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Erwin
Keyword(s):  
Sargasso Sea ◽  
Wide Sargasso Sea ◽  
Looking Glass

scholarly journals Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea and the Case of Post Colonial Haunting

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Kathleen Hemingway
Keyword(s):  
Transnational Literature ◽  
Sargasso Sea ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Wide Sargasso Sea ◽  
The University

 Kathleen Hemingway is currently in her third year at the University of Toronto Mississauga where she is specializing in English and majoring in History. She has spent the last five summers working as both a counsellor and a teacher at an arts camp. Kathleen is particularly interested in ideas of translation and post-colonial as well as transnational literature.

scholarly journals Rediscovering Jane Eyre’s Bertha in Wide Sargasso Sea: A Post-Colonial Study

2020 ◽  
pp. 33-40
Author(s):  
Kazi Ehteshumes Mohammad Chishti
Keyword(s):  
Charlotte Bronte ◽  
Jean Rhys ◽  
Jane Eyre ◽  
Sargasso Sea ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Wide Sargasso Sea

This particular article focuses on two novels, namely Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. What many casual readers are unable to grasp though the reading of post-colonial writing is the various subjects and areas it covers, and how it incorporates all what are currently prevalent in the society, such as ruling class, sexuality, slavery,society, bigotry, and romance are covered by some of the most famous post-colonial critiques. This detailed article will help understanding the hypercritical fact of a euphemistic colonial narrative that mostly gives touchy feelings to the readers about the colonial master’s ironical kindheartedness and a fictional yet considerably realistic characterization of a contrapuntal narrative with the help of those terms and their effectiveness quite adequately along with references from both texts. The lineage and background of post-colonial study is also discussed and both novels are thoroughly presented in a postcolonial manner unlike any other.

scholarly journals Rhetoric of Post-Colonial Mindset in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 124-131
Author(s):  
Rajiv Niroula
Keyword(s):  
Black People ◽  
New Historicism ◽  
Sargasso Sea ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Colonial Mentality ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Wide Sargasso Sea ◽  
Post Colonialism

This paper examines the rhetoric of post-colonial mentality, mindset and attitude in Jean Rhys’s novel Wide Sargasso Sea and looks at how the writer is not aloof from the colonial mindset. Drawing on insights and postulations from Gayatri Spivak’s post-colonialism and Lee Erwin’s new-historicism, this article analyzes the imperial discourse in the novel. Although the writer shows her narrator being close to black people as a Creole woman, the writer’s closeness to the imperial mindset is evident throughout the novel. This paper concludes that by creating a certain distance from the ex-slaves, the writer is not able to fully liberate herself from her imperial mindset. Although the writer tries to affiliate herself with the ex-slaves, she however remains within her own culture, that is, culture of Creole.

scholarly journals Diversity of Genre in Post-Colonial Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-300
Author(s):  
Nina F. Shcherbak
Keyword(s):  
Jean Rhys ◽  
Michael Ondaatje ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Sargasso Sea ◽  
Colonial Literature ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Wide Sargasso Sea ◽  
The Face ◽  
Zadie Smith ◽  
Bernhard Schlink

The main aim of this article is to outline main tendencies in the development of post-colonial literature in the face of Jean Rhys and her novel Wide Sargasso Sea as a vivid example of starting attempt to break a white-domineering view of Asian countries and build up a new identity. Research attempts to refer to a wider scope of literary texts, including the ones that outline issues and problems related to the so-called invasion narratives. The term invasion narratives is seen as referring to a number of different texts, including English Patient by Michael Ondaatje or the Reader by Bernhard Schlink. One of numerous possibilities of analyzing post-colonial literature is the analysis of the novels by Zadie Smith White Teeth and on Beauty, the latter being a good example of a return to realism and actualizing what is called coined as the meanwhile. Special attention is given to meta-modernism and its function on the contemporary cultural and literary scene, above all with its attempt to start a neo-romantic direct kind of prose, or verse, simple in its form, yet aiming to construct new identities. This kind of prose incorporates the narratives exploring different traumas, including trans-generational traumas.

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