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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| Lenguaje: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| Acceso en línea: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sumario: | 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 compelling representations of the metropolis are disrupted by delirious lines of flight, by the ‘secret’ which cannot be accounted for by European knowledge systems. |
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