![]() Read More The Guardian article PersonalĬopyright ©2010 The Open University. ![]() Wide Sargasso Sea is an extraordinary retelling of Brontë’s novel and one of the key post-colonial novels of the twentieth century. Title: Wide Sargasso Sea / Jean Rhys introduction by Edwidge Danticat. ![]() Told from the point of view of Antoinette Cosway. Rhys’s early life was shaped by poverty and her experiences as an outsider within English society and her early work starting with the short stories collected in The Left Bank and other Stories (1927) and Voyage in the Dark (1934), address complex issues around gender and race, with the protagonist of the latter identifying herself as black in a playful reversal of the colonial project that anticipates later post-colonial and post-modern fictions. She’s best known, of course, as the author of Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), a postcolonial prequel to Charlotte Bront’s Jane Eyre. Her work was radical, and challenging within a broadly modernist strain and largely unsuccessful until The Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), a critically acclaimed prequel to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. ![]() Rhys was the pen name of Ella Williams, a Dominican writer of mixed Welsh and Creole ancestry. ![]()
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