Across the ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’: Jean Rhys’s Revision of Charlotte Brontë’s Eurocentric Gothic

Through her redeployment of Gothic conventions, Jean Rhys discloses the hidden mechanisms of colonial history which is invested with demonic power. Its ghosts trap the characters into repetitive patterns, while Christophine’s obeah is defeated by the witchcraft of the dominant idiom. However, the co...

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1. Verfasser: Maurel, Sylvie
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Veröffentlicht: Commonwealth Essays and Studies 2024
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