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1. 1. The Silenced Love Story : The Complexity of Colonialism in Wide Sargasso Sea

   University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Author : Elisabeth Stenman; [2016]
   Keywords : Jean Rhys; Wide Sargasso Sea; colonialism; social ranking; otherness; colonial mimicry;

   Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to look into how Jean Rhys describes the complexity of colonialism in the Caribbean and how it affected the colonized people and the European colonizers. Her novel Wide Sargasso Sea is considered to be a re-writing of Jane Eyre, but it also demonstrates social rankings and racial groupings in the colonial society. READ MORE