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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Wide Sargasso Sea"”.
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Truth and strangers in Jean Rhys's novels : Good morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea
… Bauman and the novels Good Morning, Midnight and Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. These novels portray marginal women who are excluded from the very community which has created them. Rhys illustrates how the need to sustain an artificial order gives rise to a psychic fragmentation which is typical …
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Mémoire et identité dans les réécritures caribéennes : Wide Sargasso Sea et La Migration des Coeurs
… thesis will study creole identity in Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), prequel of Jane Eyre, as well as in Maryse Condé's La Migration des Coeurs (1995), a rewriting of Wuthering Heights. I argue that both novels create a new creole identity by conversing with their original texts as well as …
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Kilea and a critical, reflective essay on Virginia Woolf's The Common Reader and To The Lighthouse, James Joyce's Ulysses and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
… Dublin. The last chapter examines Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea through the lens of feminism, with an awareness of Rhys’s antagonistic views of ‘Women’s Lib’. It notes how fate and foreknowledge of fate imbue the characters of the novel with a heaviness and fatality regardless of their gender. …
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Displacement and the text: exploring otherness in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, Maryse Condé's La migration des coeurs, Rosario Ferré's The House on the Lagoon, and Tina De Rosa's Paper Fish
… written by a different female author: Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea, Maryse Condé's La migration des cœurs, Rosario Ferré's The House on the Lagoon, and Tina De Rosa's Paper Fish. I identify the causes of the protagonists' displacement, and analyze the actions they take to make themselves heard in …
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Identities displaced and misplaced: aspects of postcolonial subjectivity in the novels of Jean Rhys
… Dark (1934), Good Morning, Midnight (1939), and Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). These aspects are informed by race, gender and class, unique to each of the novels, and all involving a degree of performance and/or mimicry. Although the phrase, “Stages of Postcolonial Subjectivity” was considered, it was …
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Forays into the attic: The postcolonial fiction of Jean Rhys and J. M. Coetzee
… History,"" and ""Receding/Recursive Margins in Wide Sargasso Sea: 'Who Knows What's Up in the Attic?' thinspace""; they focus on Rhys's fictional strategy of borrowing the rage and resistances of other narratives of dispossession. In both chapters, I examine Rhys's formal dismantling of the …
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Neo-Victorian Cannibalism: A Reading of Contemporary Neo-Victorian Fiction
… cannibalistic terms, in Jane Eyre, Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) and three relatively recent neo-Victorian novels - Lin Haire-Sargeant’s H: The Story of Heathcliff’s Journey Back to Wuthering Heights (1992), D.M. Thomas’s Charlotte: The Final Journey of Jane Eyre (2000) and Emma Tennant’s …
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Reclaiming virginity, liberating desire : a study of three women's novels
… Jane Eyre and Rhys's Voyage in the Dark and Wide Sargasso Sea, I adopt a reading of Luce Irigaray's concept of virginity to explore these writer's search for an identity beyond that defined by patriarchy. Traditionally, virginity is informed by a series of dichotomies (for example, man/woman, …
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1960s travel fiction and Englishness during the postimperial turn
… Naipaul's The Mimic Men (1967), and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966). In these three novels, Fowles, Naipaul and Rhys critique British imperialism by engaging and reinventing the travel narrative form. Although many British writers publishing during the 60s were using travel tropes and the …
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Monstrous 'Others': The Legacy of Race, Hybridity, and Intersectionality in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
… classify and define all species. Much of their research is eventually used to justify both slavery and colonization. The racial stereotypes established by these race scientists also permeate the literature of the nineteenth century. Into this world are born Frankenstein’s Creature, Bertha Mason, …
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Mad or Uncontrollable? Reading Female Madness in Three Gothic Texts
… in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, and Isabel Allende’s “If You Touched My Heart.” Drawing on theories of socially constructed disability, it argues that Bertha, Antoinette, and Hortensia are framed as “mad women” not through inherent pathology, but through …
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J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla: A Tri-Part Exploration of the Vampiric Novel
… in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea. By engaging these outside texts, I propose that Bertha Rheinfeldt’s cautionary tale is one that warns father’s of losing domestic control and that such a warning can be expanded into a warning for empires and their ability to …
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"The Island Has Two Sides": Female Subjectivity in Postcolonial Adaptation
… Black Witch of Salem (1988), and Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), this dissertation will contribute to the fields of feminist and postcolonial studies by arguing that the kinds of female critical voices that we find embedded within these postcolonial texts, either through fictional …