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Author | : Julia Straub |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 27 |
Release | : 2019-04-30 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 3668930511 |
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Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 2,7, University of Constance, course: British and American Studies, language: English, abstract: This work focuses on the question of identity in the novel "Wide Sargasso Sea". Antoinette, the female protagonist of Jean Rhys’ novel "Wide Sargasso Sea", is struggling with those questions of her identity all her life. As a Creole girl, who lives in Jamaica during post-colonialism, she finds herself caught between two identities not knowing where she belongs. On the one hand, there is the black community which she knows and grows up with, on the other hand the white community which her mother tries to be a part of and forces Antoinette to fit into as well. This life between two contrasting cultures forces Antoinette into a situation of confusion and doubt which makes her question not only where she belongs but if she belongs at all. It drives her into a crisis which she is not able to escape. Jean Rhys published her novel in 1966. "Wide Sargasso Sea" tells the story of Antoinette Cosway who is also, known under the name of Bertha, a character of Charlotte Brontë's novel "Jane Eyre". In "Wide Sargasso Sea" Rhys is giving Bertha/ Antoinette a story and a reason why she became mad in the first place. The story starts in her childhood and moves on to the marriage to Mr. Rochester. The last part is set when she is already imprisoned by her husband and is setting the house on fire which accords with the story told in "Jane Eyre". For the background of the novel it is important to know that Rhys herself grew up in a situation like Antoinette’s. She as well had troubles with identifying herself when she grew up. So Rhys shares part of Antoinette’s history which is probably why she was that interested in telling her story which is completely uncared-for by Brontë.
Author | : Jean Rhys |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780393308808 |
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Author | : Veronica Marie Gregg |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2017-11-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1469617358 |
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As the foremost white West Indian writer of this century and author of the widely acclaimed novel Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (1890-1979) has attracted much critical attention, most often from the perspective of gender analysis. Veronica Gregg extends our critical appreciation of Rhys by analyzing the complex relationship between Rhys's identity and the structures of her fiction, and she reveals the ways in which this relationship is connected to the history of British colonization of the West Indies. Gregg focuses on Rhys as a writer--a Creole woman analyzing the question of identity through literary investigations of race, gender, and colonialism. Arguing that history itself can be a site where different narratives collide and compete, she explores Rhys's rewriting of the historical discourses of the West Indies and of European canonical texts, such as Rhys's treatment of Jane Eyre in Wide Sargasso Sea. Gregg's analysis also reveals the precision with which Rhys crafted her work and her preoccupation with writing as performance.
Author | : Marian Hüssy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2000 |
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Author | : Monica Ali |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0552774456 |
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Still In Her Teenage Years, Nazneen Finds Herself In An Arranged Marriage With A Disappointed Man Who Is Twenty Years Older. Away From The Mud And Heat Of Her Bangladeshi Village, Home Is Now A Cramped Flat In A High-Rise Block In London S East End. Nazneen Knows Not A Word Of English, And Is Forced To Depend On Her Husband. But Unlike Him She Is Practical And Wise, And Befriends A Fellow Asian Girl Razia, Who Helps Her Understand The Strange Ways Of Her Adopted New British Home. Nazneen Keeps In Touch With Her Sister Hasina Back In The Village. But The Rebellious Hasina Has Kicked Against Cultural Tradition And Run Off In A Love Marriage With The Man Of Her Dreams. When He Suddenly Turns Violent, She Is Forced Into The Degrading Job Of Garment Girl In A Cloth Factory. Confined In Her Flat By Tradition And Family Duty, Nazneen Also Sews Furiously For A Living, Shut Away With Her Buttons And Linings - Until The Radical Karim Steps Unexpectedly Into Her Life. On A Background Of Racial Conflict And Tension, They Embark On A Love Affair That Forces Nazneen Finally To Take Control Of Her Fate.Strikingly Imagined, Gracious And Funny, This Novel Is At Once Epic And Intimate. Exploring The Role Of Fate In Our Lives - Those Who Accept It; Those Who Defy It - It Traces The Extraordinary Transformation Of An Asian Girl, From Cautious And Shy To Bold And Dignified Woman.
Author | : Cristina-Georgiana Voicu |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2014-10-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3110368129 |
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Using a theoretical approach and a critical summary, combining the perspectives in the postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis and narratology with the tools of hermeneutics and deconstruction, this book argues that Jean Rhys’s work can be subsumed under a poetics of cultural identity and hybridity. It also demonstrates the validity of the concept of hybridization as the expression of identity formation; the cultural boundaries variability; the opposition self-otherness, authenticity-fiction, trans-textuality; and the relevance of an integrated approach to multiple cultural identities as an encountering and negotiation space between writer, reader and work. The complexity of ontological and epistemological representation involves an interdisciplinary approach that blends a literary interpretive approach to social, anthropological, cultural and historical perspectives. The book concludes that in the author’s fictional universe, cultural identity is represented as a general human experience that transcends the specific conditionalities of geographical contexts, history and culture. The construction of identity by Jean Rhys is represented by the dichotomy of marginal identity and the identification with a human ideal designed either by the hegemonic discourse or metropolitan culture or by the dominant ideology. The identification with a pattern of cultural authenticity, of racial, ethnic, or national purism is presented as a purely destructive cultural projection, leading to the creation of a static universe in opposition to the diversity of human feelings and aspirations. Jean Rhys’s fictional discourse lies between “the anxiety of authorship” and “the anxiety of influence” and shows the postcolonial era of uprooting and migration in which the national ownership diluted the image of a “home” ambiguous located at the boundary between a myth of origins and a myth of becoming. The relationship between the individual and socio-cultural space is thus shaped in a dual hybrid position.
Author | : Cat Sebastian |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2017-07-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0062642529 |
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Author | : Sandra M. Gilbert |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 742 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300246722 |
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Called "a feminist classic" by Judith Shulevitz in the New York Times Book Review, this pathbreaking book of literary criticism is now reissued with a new introduction by Lisa Appignanesi that speaks to how The Madwoman in the Attic set the groundwork for subsequent generations of scholars writing about women writers, and why the book still feels fresh some four decades later. "Gilbert and Gubar have written a pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again."--Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World
Author | : Jean Rhys |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-11-03 |
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ISBN | : 9780141984544 |
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Author | : Jean Rhys |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780393303940 |
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A woman encounters a life filled with desires and emotions when she returns to Paris after suffering from a bout of depression and alcoholism in London.