In this paper, I will explore the complexities in identity and its effects on the characters in Jean Rhy’s Wide Sargasso Sea, J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus using the lens of postcolonial approach. The concept of identity is complex and...
If in Wide Sargasso Sea, Antoinette represents postcolonial and feminist rewriting, in Foe the feminist resistance is conveyed by the figure of Susan while the symbol of postcolonial resistance is in the tongueless figure of Friday whose voiceless self survives the ineffectual control of the...
Introduction Rose Camel in her critical essay ‘Before I was set free. The Creole wife in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea’ states that ‘Mr Rochester’s lunatic wife continues to haunt readers of Charlotte of Brontë’s and Jean Rhys autobiographical masterpieces.’ In Charlotte Bronte’s ‘Jane...
The impact of loss in both novels is prominent and ubiquitous and arguably the theme of loss manifests itself as the underlying plots of these novels. There is a variation of losses contained within these books, such as the loss of identity due to the...
Hailed as a feminist novel, Jane Eyre represents the Victorian female struggle for independence and autonomy. A bildungsroman, Bronte skilfully brings to light the oppression and inequality facing women in the 19th century, inspiring feminists and writers alike including the Creole writer Jean Rhys; author...
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