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Wide Sargasso Sea / Jean Rhys ; backgrounds, criticism edited by Judith L. Raiskin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A Norton critical editionPublication details: New York : W.W. Norton, c1999.Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 266 p. : ill., map ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0393960129 (pbk.)
  • 9780393960129 (pbk.)
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Contents:
Criticism. Jean Rhys / Derek Walcott -- Modernist crosscurrents / Mary Lou Emery -- "The other side" : Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre / Michael Thorpe -- [The place of Jean Rhys and Wide Sargasso Sea] / Kenneth Ramchand -- Carnival of psyche : Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea / Wilson Harris -- Race and Caribbean culture as thematics of liberation in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea / Sandra Drake -- [History and narrative in Wide Sargasso Sea] / Lee Erwin -- Burning down the house : the revisionary paradigm of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea / Caroline Rody -- Unquiet ghosts : the struggle for representation in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea / Mona Fayad -- [Wide Sargasso Sea and a critique of imperialism] / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- [Two native voices in Wide Sargasso Sea] / Benita Parry -- England : dream and nightmare / Judith Raiskin -- Jean Rhys : a chronology.
The text of Wide Sargasso Sea. Introduction / by Francis Wyndham ; Wide Sargasso Sea -- Backgrounds. [The Sargasso Sea] / Rachel L. Carson -- From Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre and Bertha ; The ruined wedding ; Rochester's story ; Fire at Thornfield Hall / Charlotte Brontë -- Selected letters. To Peggy Kirkaldy (Oct. 4, 1949) ; To Maryvonne Moerman (Nov. 9, 1949) ; To Peggy Kirkaldy (Dec. 6, 1949) ; To Morchard Bishop (Jan. 27, 1953) ; To Francis Wyndham (March 29, 1958) ; To Selma Vaz Dias (April 9, 1958) ; To Francis Wyndham (Sept. 27, 1959) ; To Diana Athill (Aug. 16, 1963) ; To Francis Wyndham (March 7, 1964), (April 14, 1964), (1964) -- To Diana Athill (March 9, 1966) / Jean Rhys -- The bible is modern -- From Smile please. Books ; Meta ; My mother ; Black/white ; Facts of life -- From "Black exercise book"
Summary: Beautiful and wealthy Antoinette Cosway's passionate love for an English aristocrat threatens to destroy her idyllic West Indian island existence and her very life; accompanied by notes and criticism.
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Textual notes illuminate the novel's historical background, regional references, and the non-translated Creole and French phrases necessary to fully understand this powerful story. Backgrounds includes a wealth of material on the novel's long evolution, it connections to Jane Eyre, and Rhys's biographical impressions of growing up in Dominica. Criticism introduces readers to the critical debates inspired by the novel with a Derek Walcott poem and eleven essays.

Prequel to: Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontë.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-266).

Criticism. Jean Rhys / Derek Walcott -- Modernist crosscurrents / Mary Lou Emery -- "The other side" : Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre / Michael Thorpe -- [The place of Jean Rhys and Wide Sargasso Sea] / Kenneth Ramchand -- Carnival of psyche : Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea / Wilson Harris -- Race and Caribbean culture as thematics of liberation in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea / Sandra Drake -- [History and narrative in Wide Sargasso Sea] / Lee Erwin -- Burning down the house : the revisionary paradigm of Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea / Caroline Rody -- Unquiet ghosts : the struggle for representation in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea / Mona Fayad -- [Wide Sargasso Sea and a critique of imperialism] / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- [Two native voices in Wide Sargasso Sea] / Benita Parry -- England : dream and nightmare / Judith Raiskin -- Jean Rhys : a chronology.

The text of Wide Sargasso Sea. Introduction / by Francis Wyndham ; Wide Sargasso Sea -- Backgrounds. [The Sargasso Sea] / Rachel L. Carson -- From Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre and Bertha ; The ruined wedding ; Rochester's story ; Fire at Thornfield Hall / Charlotte Brontë -- Selected letters. To Peggy Kirkaldy (Oct. 4, 1949) ; To Maryvonne Moerman (Nov. 9, 1949) ; To Peggy Kirkaldy (Dec. 6, 1949) ; To Morchard Bishop (Jan. 27, 1953) ; To Francis Wyndham (March 29, 1958) ; To Selma Vaz Dias (April 9, 1958) ; To Francis Wyndham (Sept. 27, 1959) ; To Diana Athill (Aug. 16, 1963) ; To Francis Wyndham (March 7, 1964), (April 14, 1964), (1964) -- To Diana Athill (March 9, 1966) / Jean Rhys -- The bible is modern -- From Smile please. Books ; Meta ; My mother ; Black/white ; Facts of life -- From "Black exercise book"

Beautiful and wealthy Antoinette Cosway's passionate love for an English aristocrat threatens to destroy her idyllic West Indian island existence and her very life; accompanied by notes and criticism.

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