This classic study of betrayal, a seminal work of postcolonial literature, is Jean Rhys's brief, beautiful masterpiece. Caught between his demands and her own precarious sense of belonging, Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness, and her husband into the arms of another novel's heroine. Rhys made a career out of writing novels and short stories that contemplated the lives of unconventional women. In it, Rhys gives Brontes Bertha character her own real iden. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her. Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), Jean Rhys’s best-known novel, contemplates the life of Bertha Mason Rochester, a minor character in Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre (1847). Jean Rhyss 1966 novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, is broadly recognized as a postcolonial, feminist prequel to Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre. Wide Sargasso Sea was Jean Rhyss effort to rewrite, or more accurately, to elaborate on and complicate, the history presented by Charlotte Brontës classic novel, Jane Eyre.The eponymous protagonist of Jane Eyre develops into a fiercely independent, self-assured, moral, and passionate young woman. One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'Ī gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys's great masterpiece of desire and madness in the Caribbean, published for the novel's fiftieth anniversary.īorn into the oppressive, colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality.
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