Wide Sargasso Sea

Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys


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Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 postcolonial parallel novel by Dominica-born author Jean Rhys. Since her previous work, Good Morning, Midnight, was published in 1939, Rhys had lived in obscurity. Wide Sargasso Sea put Rhys into the limelight once more, and became her most successful novel.
The novel acts as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's famous 1847 novel Jane Eyre. It is the story of the first Mrs. Rochester, Antoinette (Bertha) Mason, a white Creole heiress, from the time of her youth in the Caribbean to her unhappy marriage and relocation to England. Caught in an oppressive patriarchal society in which she belongs neither to the white Europeans nor the black Jamaicans, Rhys' novel re-imagines Brontë's devilish madwoman in the attic. As with many postcolonial works, the novel deals largely with the themes of racial inequality and the harshness of displacement and assimilation.

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There are two ways of reading Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea: the first one is not knowing that the novel dialogues with the English literary tradition by giving voice to a silenced character from a nineteenth century book; the second, and opposite one, is acknowledging its postmodern stand of revisiting the past, by bringing to life one of fiction’s most mysterious characters, the madwoman in the attic from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Both readings will certainly guarantee an intrigu... leia mais

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