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	Wide Sargasso Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wide Sargasso Sea is a 1966 novel, by Jean Rhys, which retells Charlotte Bronte's famous 1847 novel, Jane Eyre by placing Bertha Mason at the center of the tale.
		The novel is set a short while after the emancipation of the slaves in British-owned Jamaica.
		Wide Sargasso Sea is usually taught as a postmodern and postcolonial response to Jane Eyre [1],[2].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wide_Sargasso_Sea (355 words)

	The Experience of Womanhood in "Jane Eyre" and "Wide Sargasso Sea"
		Wide Sargasso Sea was Jean Rhys's effort to rewrite, or more accurately, to elaborate on and complicate, the history presented by Charlotte Brontë's classic novel, Jane Eyre.
		In Wide Sargasso Sea, the answer to this question is inherently feminist in that the "cultural context" is one where a dominant group (white men) oppresses other groups (women, former slaves, servants, etc.) and to be female means to negotiate the suffering caused by this domination.
		Wide Sargasso Sea maintains a steady absence of faith in woman's ability to transcend the oppression of her gender.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /caribbean/dominica/rhys/lewkowicz14.html (3693 words)

	The Fated Modernist Heroine: Female Protagonists in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea
		ean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea is a modernist revision of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre
		Greed is mentioned frequently in Wide Sargasso Sea, to explain both Rochester's motives for marrying Antoinette Cosway and the present chaos resulting from the slave trade.
		This unfairness is central to Wide Sargasso Sea's literary purpose: remedies fail to exist because of larger, structural imbalance.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/bronte/cbronte/burns14.html (4275 words)

	Rendering the shadow – the vampirism of Wide Sargasso Sea
		In the novel, Wide Sargasso Sea, the Obeah are represented by the servant woman, Christophine, who is present throughout the novel, gives Antoinette a potion to seduce Rochester, and becomes embroiled in his consciousness as an echo of his confused and differentiated rationality.
		She is present as a bad dream, a wild animal, she is a fl mark against the aspirations of Jane Eyre, and she is a fateful aspect that is programmed to conflagration.
		As he states in Wide Sargasso Sea in anticipation of this situation: “I too can wait – for the day when she is only a memory to be avoided, locked, and like all memories a legend or a lie.” P.112 (WSS).
	www.geocities.com /dracle99/writing/wss (1627 words)

	WIDE SARGASSO SEA - Jean Rhys - Penguin Readers
		Yet in ‘Wide Sargasso Sea’, Rhys found a title to do justice to her rich and haunting book.
		Wide Sargasso Sea may be famous for it’s ‘writing back’ to Jane Eyre, but it is a fine and rich work in its own right.
		But just as Wide Sargasso Sea has often been called a post-colonial work, so too it can be seen as post-modern, refusing to confirm its ending, hinting that other options fan out like a series of question marks beyond the text.
	readers.penguin.co.uk /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,5_9780141185422,00.html (543 words)

	Reading Group Guide: Wide Sargasso Sea
		Jean Rhys draws on her childhood memories of the Caribbean to create the magical, dangerous landscape of Wide Sargasso Sea, bringing to life a character who has haunted fiction readers for more than a century.
		Wide Sargasso Sea has two fires-one in the first section and one in the last.
		Wide Sargasso Sea was based largely on Rhys's childhood experiences in Dominica.
	www.wwnorton.com /rgguides/sargassorgg.htm (1376 words)

	Semicolon
		Wide Sargasso Sea is the only one of her novels set in the West Indies.
		In short, Wide Sargasso Sea has an interesting premise, but Jean Rhys succeeded in convincing me that nineteenth century Dominican culture, if it was in any way similar to the culture portrayed in the book, was indeed very foreign and dark and mystifying.
		I came away feeling that Wide Sargasso Sea was more to bring to light the conditions in that part of the world, than to enlighten us about Bertha.
	semicolon.reachcoop.org /?p=1232 (743 words)

	WAG: Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea
		In the wake of her renaissance, she received several awards and was even made a CBE before her death in 1979 at the age of eighty-four.
		It’s not difficult to see Wide Sargasso Sea and its protagonist’s fate in Jane Eyre as a veiled autobiography: the Creole / English girl travels from a life of loneliness and alienation in the West Indies to an even more bitter (and lurid) life of loneliness and alienation in England.
		That the reader of Wide Sargasso Sea would never guess its author’s own dire difficulties in the face of its supreme authorial control is certainly a testament to Rhys’s writing prowess.
	www.thewag.net /weekly_classics/wide_sargasso_sea.html (1212 words)

	Wide Sargasso Sea
		Wide Sargasso Sea reveals the story formerly left unrevealed by Charlotte Bronte in Jane Eyre: the details of the first marriage of the dark, mysterious Mr.
		She published a few respected but obscure novels and short stories in the late 1920s and 1930's, when she was already in her forties, then disappeared from view for twenty years, until the BBC dramatized one of her works as a radio play in 1958.
		This story was finally published in 1966, at which point she hadn't published anything meaningful in a quarter of a century and was almost as old as the universe itself.
	www.fakes.net /widesargassosea.htm (1026 words)

	Review: Wide Sargasso Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wide Sargasso Sea is a prequel to Charlotte Bronte's classic Jane Eyre.
		Wide Sargasso Sea, faithful to the novel from which it is taken, is a sensual, beautifully photographed, poorly-paced motion picture.
		Ultimately, it isn't that Wide Sargasso Sea is a bad movie; rather, it's a question of how powerful it could have been with lead performers who could bolster, rather than mute, their characters.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/w/wide_sargasso.html (405 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"Wide Sargasso Sea" A Film Review by Linda Lopez McAlister "The Women's Show" WMNF-FM, Tampa There is a really interesting film, "Wide Sargasso Sea," based on Jean Rhys's novel of the same name, playing in the Tampa Bay area for at least another week.
		The killing seaweed is reprised in Rochester's nightmares as he finds his whole sojourn to this newly emancipated colony as disorienting and threatening as the Sargasso Sea.
		How she goes from being this radiant young bride to the actually not-so-insane but utterly enraged Bertha Mason who finally rises up and burns the house of the master who has enslaved her in his attic for years, is the rest of this story.
	www.mith2.umd.edu /WomensStudies/FilmReviews/W/wide-sargasso-sea-mcalister (741 words)

	Wide Sargasso Sea Summary & Essays - Jean Rhys
		When Wide Sargasso Sea was published in 1966 it helped to rescue its author, Jean Rhys, from the obscurity into which she had fallen.
		Wide Sargasso Sea caught the immediate attention of critics, won the prestigious W. Smith Award and Heinemann Award, and earned Rhys a place in the literary canon.
		In telling Bertha's story (known in Wide Sargasso Sea as Antoinette Cosway), Rhys explores the complex relations between white and fl West Indians, and between the old slaveholding West Indian families and the new English settlers in the post-emancipation Caribbean.
	www.enotes.com /wide-sargasso (364 words)

	Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys, Francis Wyndham
		Wide Sargasso Sea is the story of Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress who grew up in the West Indies on a decaying plantation.
		When she comes of age she is married off to an Englishman, and he takes her away from the only place she has known--a house with a garden where "the paths were overgrown and a smell of dead flowers mixed with the fresh living smell.
		Wide Sargasso Sea follows her voyage into the dark, both from her point of view and Rochester's.
	www.johnholleman.com /win/sargasso2.html (636 words)

	Amazon.com: Wide Sargasso Sea: A Novel (Norton Paperback Fiction): Books: Jean Rhys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"Wide Sargasso Sea" is often listed as a "must-read" book --it certainly is a unique book and was far ahead of its time when Rhys wrote it.
		If you enjoyed "Wide Sargasso Sea," there is a good chance that you will enjoy her other books too--although I would have to add here that if this was the first Rhys novel for me, I doubt that I would bother to seek out her others.
		In Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys creates a lush picture of the West Indies as she knew them and a vibrant background for the enigmatic figure in Jane Eyre, Mr.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393308804?v=glance (2797 words)

	FREE MonkeyNotes Study Guide Summary-Wide Sargasso Sea by Jane Rhys-QUOTATIONS/MEANING OF THE TITLE-Free Book Notes ...
		The Sargasso Sea is a large difficult to define area in the central North Atlantic, northeast of the West Indies, variably stretching from east of the Bahamas towards the Azores.
		The Sargasso Sea is characterized as an area of eerie calmness and tangled sargassum (a floating seaweed).
		When she physically crosses the Sargasso Sea and goes to England she believes the ship had lost its way and that she is not really in England.
	www.pinkmonkey.com /booknotes/monkeynotes/pmWideSargasso25.asp (1038 words)

	BrontëBlog: On Wide Sargasso Sea
		We have come across an appreciation of Wide Sargasso Sea by Wendy James, whose first novel - Out of Silence - has been published recently.
		Wide Sargasso Sea is a quintessentially 20th century novel - concerned with uncertainty, with the fluidity of truth and fiction, of past and present, appearances and reality, madness and sanity - and yet remains elementally connected to the concerns of its mother-narrative.
		Now comes the time when this 50% of BrontëBlog ashamedly confesses that she has never read Wide Sargasso Sea, and what's more, has never feel drawn to read it.
	bronteblog.blogspot.com /2006/02/on-wide-sargasso-sea.html (434 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Wide Sargasso Sea
		Jean Rhys might have started writing what became Wide Sargasso Sea shortly after her return from Dominica in 1936, the one return visit she made to the island of her birth after leaving it as a teenager in 1907.
		Some of this writing was destroyed by Rhys, but other parts of it may have survived and gradually been added to under the vague title of Creole,”; a token of her desire eventually to write about her memories of the West Indies.
		Wide Sargasso Sea is a prequel to Jane Eyre in that it tells an extended story of Rochester’s visit to the West Indies to marry an heiress, Bertha Mason.
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8787 (504 words)

	‘Wide Sargasso Sea’ (NC-17)
		That's the gist of the softly pornographic, luridly metaphoric "Wide Sargasso Sea," an uninvolving island idyll based on Jean Rhys's Gothic prequel to "Jane Eyre." Though rated NC-17 for its naked truths, an SPF-15 would be enough: The hottest thing about the movie is the strong Caribbean sun.
		He dreams about strangling in Sargasso seaweed and becomes repelled by his urges, the bugs, even the local produce.
		"Wide Sargasso Sea" is really just coffee-table pornography with sound effects.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/widesargassoseanc17kempley_a0a380.htm (503 words)

	Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		Wide Sargasso Sea was written as a prequel to Jane Eyre and tells the story of the mad wife in the...
		Set in Martinique, it recounts Antoinette's story of growing up in a place that both attracts and repels her, it leads us through her life on the mysterious journey from her beautiful island to the dark, bleak house in the north of England, that was Rochester's home.
		Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys : Madwoman in the attic.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/wide-sargasso-sea-jean-rhys (316 words)

	Wide Sargasso Sea (1993) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The following review is taken from my contribution to a thread called "Worst novel adaptations" from the Film General board: Wide Sargasso Sea was originally a beautiful, haunting novel set in mid-19th century Jamaica written by Creole-Welsh writer Jean Rhys in the 1960s.
		It's a sensual novel, mainly because the lush Jamaican countryside and emotional spontaneity of the local people was too much for the straight-laced, English Victorian gent, Rochester.
		It's written in subtle, understated yet powerfully-evoked prose that speaks of the movements of the soul rather than those of the pelvis.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0108565 (506 words)

	Sargasso Sea
		The relatively still sea is the center of a great swirl of ocean currents and is a rich field for the marine biologist.
		Sargassum - Sargassum, genus of brown algae that has given its name to the Sargasso Sea, where it is found in...
		Edward Rochester and the margins of masculinity in 'Jane Eyre' and 'Wide Sargasso Sea.'
	www.infoplease.com /id/A0843677 (287 words)

	Book review: Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (Literature)
		In the Norton Critical Edition edited by Judith L. Raiskin, several commentators expound on their views of what that symbolism means from a Caribbean, British, and feminist perspective.
		Wide Sargasso Sea evokes the Bible several times.
		There are seemingly endless layers of meaning within the slight 112 pages of Wide Sargasso Sea, about ethnic and national identities, about imperialistic and patriarchical repression, about madness, and about the relative relationship between reality and dream.
	www.slywy.com /bookreviews/sargasso.html (628 words)

	Wide Sargasso Sea - Movie Review
		In the same year as the masterful The Piano, Wide Sargasso Sea planted a foreign woman in a lush tropical setting and cut her loose to roll in the hay with the natives.
		Starlet Karina Lombard was one of those shot-in-the-dark/outta-nowhere actresses (today's example: Kill Bill's Chiaki Kuriyama) who made a splash in a tiny role (she was the island girl who seduced Tom Cruise in The Firm) and subsequently bit off more than she could chew in a lead role.
		Sargasso explains that in a straightforward fashion but without a whole lot of drama, focusing instead on the copious sex scenes.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/widesargassosea (280 words)

	Tower Records - Wide Sargasso Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When Rochester (Nathaniel Parker) marries Antoinette Cosway (Karina Lombard), a Jamaican woman, their fiery passion and her nightmarish visions of the past drive her to madness and him to withdraw in an attempt to regain his sense of self.
		WIDE SARGASSO SEA is based on Jean Rhys' feminist "prequel" to Charlotte Bronte's classic novel, JANE EYRE.
		WIDE SARGASSO SEA is based on the novel of the same name by Jean Rhys.
	www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=2906288 (374 words)

	The Marraige Contract as Colonial encounter in Wide Sargasso Sea
		Jean Rhys' complex text, Wide Sargasso Sea, came about as an attempt to re-invent an identity for Rochester's mad wife, Bertha Mason, in Jane Eyre, as Rhys felt that Bronte had totally misrepresented Creole women and the West Indies: 'why should she think Creole women are lunatics and all that?
		Though this is a childish taunt in the novel, the truth of it is that nobody does want Antoinette; as Teresa O'Connor points out, not even her own mother: 'Antoinette is also alienated from the meagre remains of her family itself, and, most specifically, from her mother's love' (Jean Rhys: the West Indian Novels, 172).
		Indeed, Antoinette's otherness begins to plague Rochester to the point where (particularly after Daniel Cosway's letter) he begins to conflate her as racially other, convincing himself that there is a resemblance between her and the fl maid, Amelie.
	www.qub.ac.uk /en/imperial/carib/colonising-marriage.htm (1105 words)

	Amazon.ca: Wide Sargasso Sea: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Yet I cannot deny that I was mesmerized by the overwhelmingly lush impact of the writing in WIDE SARGASSO SEA.
		Sick with a lingering fever and lamenting his fate, the young bridegroom makes the trudging maiden journey with his new bride to their honeymoon house in an island place called Massacre ~ "Everything is too much, I felt as I rode wearily after her.
		Antoinette is eventually driven mad by the will of her controlling husband who has no inkling of the truth behind the stories that have circulated about his wife.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0141182857 (2209 words)

	SparkNotes: Wide Sargasso Sea: Key Facts
		If we stress the novel's significance as a prequel to Brontë's novel, we might argue that Antoinette's final lines—as she prepares to enact her fatal dream—represent the climax of the action.
		On the other hand, taken as an independent work in its own right, Wide Sargasso Sea points to the rising hatred between Antoinette and Rochester.
		According to this perspective, the climax might be the moment in which Rochester sees what he has made of his wife: "I was too shocked to speak.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/sargasso/facts.html (516 words)

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