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 A Feminist Critique of “Voice” and the “Other” in J.M. Coetzee’s Post-colonial Novel “Foe”

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Nushrat Azam
Keyword(s):  
Female Character ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Robinson Crusoe ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Voice And Silence ◽  
Colonial Text

This paper seeks to analyze the techniques and effects of voice and silence in the life of a female character in J. M. Coetzee’s Foe. The analysis shows how the character of Susan Barton in Foe gives readers a feminine perspective on the famous tale of Robinson Crusoe. The method of investigation is a critical examination of the characterization of the female character; the research analyzes the events, actions and the interactions of Susan Barton, with a sight to identify how the character of Susan is portrayed in the novel. The analysis shows that while Susan is able to find a “voice” in some parts of this post-colonial text, her constant submission to strong male characters in the novel ends up showing a picture of a frail woman who defines her existence and individuality relative to men in her life. It strengthens the fact that women were still struggling to free themselves from the patriarchal domination of the post-colonial era.

scholarly journals Wide Sargasso Sea: Antoinette’s Living Spaces as a Case Study

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fann Oudah Aljohani
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Jean Rhys ◽  
Space And Place ◽  
Sargasso Sea ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Wide Sargasso Sea ◽  
Psychological Analysis

This study explores the identity formation and mobility of the role of Antoinette in the novel "Wide Sargasso Sea" from the perspective of the cultural and human geography. In general, it is a space and place study. The thesis suggests that, Antoinette has some conditions and circumstances that she developed in an autonomic manner with different experiences in order to navigate and recognize the dangerous and safe spaces around her. Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys, elaborates a self-sacrifice experience that the protagonist went through in her search for identity, which she lost due to the circumstances around her. In this research, a psychological analysis of Antoinette's personality will be taken, moreover; an attempt is made to find out the reasons for her schizophrenic behavior. The research focuses on Antoinette's shattered identity and the specters she faced in her life, which ultimately played a huge role in her madness. Also, the visible opposite aspects of black/white, rationality/unconsciousness, male/female, and sanity/madness are conceived by her conscious mind, and it causes the frantic thoughts of insanity, womanhood, and blackness. Also, it sheds light on Antoinette's journey in life to figure out where she belongs and her struggle in this search. Antoinette's personality and identity crisis as a Creole girl will be discussed in depth. There are different areas that are explored in this paper; such as the interpretation of how the surrounding spaces affect Antoinette and the reasons behind the absence of a loving mother in Wide Sargasso Sea. Furthermore, Rochester's character is also examined to find out how the masculine space differs from feminine space, and to what extent Mr. Rochester's cruelty harms Antoinette. Another important thing that is discussed in the paper is the effect of family relationships on a person's identity, and how it becomes a reason of mental disorder.

scholarly journals A Symbolic Reading of Wide Sargasso Sea

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1221
Author(s):  
Li Luo
Keyword(s):  
West Indies ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Jean Rhys ◽  
Jane Eyre ◽  
Sargasso Sea ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Wide Sargasso Sea ◽  
Racial Conflicts ◽  
The Times ◽  
Moral Themes

Wide Sargasso Sea is acclaimed as the masterpiece of the British female writer Jean Rhys. In the novel, Rhys reshapes the mad wife of Rochester, Bertha Mason, who is imprisoned in the attic in Jane Eyre. With her own life experience as a white Creole and her experience living in West Indies as a blueprint, setting the abolition of slavery in West Indies in the nineteenth century as the background of the times, Rhys restores Antoinette a real state of survival under colonialism and patriarchy, with a sense of identity loss and confusion. The use of symbolism is one of the most outstanding styles in description. Owing to the use of symbolism, the historical situation of Jamaica under colonialism and patriarchy has been successfully displayed and the abstract moral themes have been vividly conveyed. This paper seeks to set symbolism as a theoretical basis, classify and analyze the symbols in the novel in accordance with their roles in revealing the themes, illustrating a complete interpretation of the complicated racial conflicts and patriarchy oppression in West Indies.

scholarly journals ‘Ropes of stories’: Jean Rhys, Vivienne Cleven and Melissa Lucashenko

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-84
Author(s):  
Jessica Gildersleeve
Keyword(s):  
Jean Rhys ◽  
Woman Writer ◽  
Sargasso Sea ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Female Role ◽  
Indigenous Woman ◽  
Wide Sargasso Sea

Cultural narratives also function as lifelines in the work of another Queensland Indigenous woman writer, Vivienne Cleven. Cleven's novel,Bitin’ Back(2001), begins when Mavis Dooley's son, Nevil, announces that he is no longer Nevil, but the writer Jean Rhys. Although Nevil eventually reveals that he has simply been acting as a woman in order to understand the protagonist of the novel he is writing, his choice of Rhys in particular is significant. Nevil selected Jean Rhys as a signifier of his female role because, he explains:She's my favourite author; she wroteWide Sargasso Sea[1966]. She was ahead of her time; she wrote about society's underdogs; about rejection and the madness of isolation. I know it sounds all crazy to you, Ma, but this is about whoIam . . . [A] lot of people would never understand me and they wouldn't want to. (2001: 184)

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.

scholarly journals Género y antiimperialismo en Ancho Mar de los Sargazos de Jean Rhys

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (58) ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Aida Chacón-Castellanos
Keyword(s):  
Jean Rhys ◽  
Sargasso Sea ◽  
Wide Sargasso Sea

Concuerdo con Maricruz Castro (2009), quien señala que género es un concepto mediante el cual quedan manifiestas las construcciones culturales alrededor de la mujer y de lo femenino, así como también del hombre y lo masculino. Considero que la autora Jean Rhys puede brindar una visión de primera mano sobre el tema no solamente de lo femenino sino también del prejuicio racial y el discurso imperialista a partir del cual se construye la identidad del otro. Fundo mi acercamiento en <em>Wide Sargasso Sea</em>,  <em>Ancho mar de los Sargazos</em>, de Rhys. La construcción de la figura femenina, ligada a la locura y el prejuicio racial, desde el punto de vista imperialista, son elementos que la autora trata de desvincular desde su muy particular narrativa.

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