Criticism introduces readers to the critical debates inspired by the novel with a Derek Walcott poem and eleven essays. Backgrounds include a wealth of material on the novel's long evolution, its connections to Jane Eyre, and Rhys's biographical impressions of growing up in Dominica.

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. |a Written over the course of twenty-one years and published in 1966, Wide Sargasso Sea, based on Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, takes place in Jamaica and Dominica in 1839-45.

Jean Rhys / Derek Walcott - Modernist crosscurrents / Mary Lou Emery - 'The other side' : Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre / Michael Thorpe - / 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 - / 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 - / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak - / Benita Parry - England : dream and nightmare / Judith Raiskin - Jean Rhys : a chronology. Books Meta My mother Black/white Facts of life - From 'Black exercise book.' 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. 27, 1953) To Francis Wyndham (March 29, 1958) To Selma Vaz Dias (April 9, 1958) To Francis Wyndham (Sept. Jane Eyre and Bertha The ruined wedding Rochester's story Fire at Thornfield Hall / Charlotte Brontë - Selected letters. Introduction / by Francis Wyndham Wide Sargasso Sea - Backgrounds. |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-266). |a Prequel to: Jane Eyre / Charlotte Brontë.

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