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Caribbean literature has been one steeped in identity crisis. Jean Rhy's Wide Sargasso Sea chronicles the problems associated with people who are found in cultural, social and economic limbo as far as their identity and history is concerned. Through dual narrative voice in the novel, Rhys gives voice to the less heard in mainstream discourse in Caribbean literature. This paper thus examine the notion of self-identity in the Rhy's Wide Sargasso Sea.
2015 •
In this paper, I claim that the “third space” extends beyond Western hegemonic discourse on identity and self, demonstrating that identity is not a singular and a stable subject but a multiple and fluid one. This article demonstrates that the “third space”, while opening the avenues for pluralities and negotiations, unsettles and problematizes the issues of identity, belonging, and home in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea. Discussions on why Antoinette’s position as a Creole in Jamaica problematizes her status and identity, and what barriers negate herself and her sense of belonging are central to this research. I further investigate the roles of Western hegemonic presence in Antoinette’s subjectivity, and her sense of liberation and autonomy. Antoinette’s position in a liminal space not only jeopardizes her identity, her longing for home and belonging, but also creates a hybrid identity that emerges in a moment of historical transformation in Jamaican history. Hybridity interrogates and deconstructs the Western hegemonic assumption of stable subjectivity and meaning. Destabilizing the notion of the Self and the Other as envisioned by Western mainstream narratives, hybridity proposes that the Self is constructed by multiple ideologies and multiple discourses. Antoinette’s occupation of a hybrid position in Wide Sargasso Sea dismantles the stable binaries of white/black, colonizer/colonized category of Western discourse and questions identity formation based on the West as the ‘Self’ and the non-West as the ‘Other’ as in Edward Said’s contention in Orientalism.
Eurasian Journal of English Language and Literature
Identity, Displacement and Alienation in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea and Voyage in The Dark2023 •
After the abolition of colonialism, new literatures from the former colonies emerged, which challenged and questioned the identity of the colonized imposed by the colonizer, and also the identity of the colonial powers. Literature of this kind or namely the postcolonial literature thus aims to subvert the imperial literatures which are in the "centre" to make the voice of the colonized heard from the "periphery". In this regard, both Wide Sargasso Sea and Voyage in the Dark analysed in this paper are striking examples of the postcolonial literature in deconstructing the colonial image and in focusing on the subject of identity. The purpose of this paper is to analyse how the issue of identity is approached in Jean Rhys's postcolonial texts Wide Sargasso Sea and Voyage in the Dark through the study of female characters'-Antoinette and Annarace, displacement, exile, alienation, and othering by focusing on Homi Bhabha's concept of hybridity.
2020 •
Studies on Jean Rhys have been fragmentary concentrating on one or two aspects of Rhys's thematic concern with the alienation of the white creole without laying emphasis on Rhys's exploration of the Creole's identity. There has been no attempt to examine if the creole has to struggle harder and more than whites and blacks to come to terms with her personal identity until now. The answer is affirmative because the creole is a composite human being. Indeed, the white creole is the 'fruit' of a mixed union. Born into miscegenation, hybridity and creolization, the creole is physically, linguistically, socially and religiously a diverse human being. Within the scope of this paper, the term identity is used in a broad sense. The creole's personal identity refers to the different identities the Creole can have at different times and in different circumstances. Correspondingly, she must negotiate the white and black elements of her identity. The Creole must deal with the complexity of her identity through a web of tangled relationships with both whites and blacks. Read from this light, the personal identity of the creole is not " either/ or, " but reluctantly " both/ and. " In various ways, the creole is an 'Everyman.' The Creole undergoes an awareness, and is eventually, redefined through the image of the 'other.' Indeed, her jump toward her black friend Tia reflects Rhys's basic concern for a Caribbean society in which assimilation and personal identity must blend in a single humane goal, that is, to co-exist beyond the lines of race, gender, class and sex in order to avoid annihilation.
2019 •
The portrayal of creole identity is presented in several literary works, one of them is in the portrayal of Antoinette Cosway in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea. Antoinette Cosway firstly is the minor character in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. The research traces the link between Antoinette Cosway’s creole identity with her madness. According to Bhabha’s ambivalence theory, creole identity possibly creates a new identity as the result of interrelation between colonizer and colonized. Based on the research, Antoinette Cosway failed to create a new identity and became a madwoman instead. The cause is the complex situation faced by her and the lack of supporting aspects for constructing a new identity. Keywords : creole identity, ambivalence, Antoinette Cosway, Homi Bhabha
Despite the fact that the story retold in Wide Sargasso Sea on the surface seems to be a pathetic love story of a Creole woman who goes crazy due to unrequited love in her marriage to an English man, through a close postcolonial reading of the novel several crucial cultural and political orientalist attitudes towards Creole people, Europe’s alternative and potential “other,” are depicted. “Orientalism, in Said’s formulation, is principally a way of defining and ‘locating’ Europe’s others”. Accordingly, within the context of this paper, the other version of the story of “the othered” will be examined from a post colonialist perception through the representations of the characters especially, that of Mr. Rochester. His orientalist and “othering” attitude towards Antoinette and the Creole way of life in the Caribbean and the related crucial identity problems of Antoinette will be discussed within the framework of this postcolonial reading on Wide Sargasso Sea. Key Words: postcolonialism, orientalism, postmodern paroody, Wide Sargasso Sea, Jane Eyre
2017 •
I would like to work on the ‘revision, rediscover and refashion’ of Victorian self in Neo-Victorian era as reflected in the text Wide Sargasso Sea . The text encapsulates not only the woman protagonist’s self but that of Jean Rhys’s psychologically intricate character Rochester too. Herein may come the Post-modern context, where under macro-powers, gheraoed individual soul struggles to establish its identity and reclaims due right out beyond the constricted territory. The nagging suspicion drives Rochester’s self-contempt and irrational need to assert his patriarchal dominance:
Studies in Literature and Language
For the Drifting Sargasso Finds Its Way: Loss and Reconstruction of Antoinette’s Identity in Wide Sargasso Sea2021 •
Adopting the applied techniques and methods of comparative literature, the postcolonial, the feminist and the psychosocial theories, this paper comes in contact with two literary works through spotlighting the external forces that can be supportive and encouraging on the one hand but undermining and discouraging the two protagonists’ long and arduous search for an identity and an independent self on the other. The paper investigates the similarities and differences in these two literary works to discover how the two writers correspond to the search of identity of the two protagonists’ in the two different novels. In addition, this paper also scrutinizes the way of the struggles that these female protagonists display to achieve their respective goals. Upon penetrating into the novels, each protagonist alights on herself in a distinctive manner depending on the state of affairs and the external forces that thoroughly determines the construction or destruction of her identity in full m...
Sargasso: A Journal of Caribbean Literature, Language, and Culture
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Rhetoric of Post-Colonial Mindset in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea2021 •
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.
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