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Feminism in Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea


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1 Department of English L. A. D & Smt. R.P College for Women, Shakarnagar, Nagpur, India
 

Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) is a postmodern revisionary perspective of Charlotte Brontë'sJane Eyre (1847) .In thisRhys has attempted a deconstructionist purview of the voicelessness and savage madness of Antoinette. The novel tracks the autobiographicalangst of a girl,which closelymirrorsthe authors own life. The parallels between the author and the heroine are drawn from narratives of troubled childhood and struggle for identity.Rhys illustrates Postmodern Intertextuality in her usage of more than one narratorin the novel,Antoinette, Mr., and Grace Poole. She also interlaces her novel with Charlotte Bronte's story of Jane Eyre, deconstructing Bronte's"madwoman of the attic". By making reference to another text, Jean Rhystoys with the post-modern element of intertextuality in her efforts to displaythematic relevancy throughout time, have a feministrevisionary of the highly acclaimed Pro- feminist novel Jane Eyre

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Meenakshi Kulkarni
Department of English L. A. D & Smt. R.P College for Women, Shakarnagar, Nagpur, India

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Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) is a postmodern revisionary perspective of Charlotte Brontë'sJane Eyre (1847) .In thisRhys has attempted a deconstructionist purview of the voicelessness and savage madness of Antoinette. The novel tracks the autobiographicalangst of a girl,which closelymirrorsthe authors own life. The parallels between the author and the heroine are drawn from narratives of troubled childhood and struggle for identity.Rhys illustrates Postmodern Intertextuality in her usage of more than one narratorin the novel,Antoinette, Mr., and Grace Poole. She also interlaces her novel with Charlotte Bronte's story of Jane Eyre, deconstructing Bronte's"madwoman of the attic". By making reference to another text, Jean Rhystoys with the post-modern element of intertextuality in her efforts to displaythematic relevancy throughout time, have a feministrevisionary of the highly acclaimed Pro- feminist novel Jane Eyre

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