JEAN RHYS: WIDE SARGASSO SEA

Obsessed with Charlotte Bronte’s, Jane Eyre, Jean Rhys has, in Wide Sargasso Sea, attempted a prequel to the novel prefiguring the heroine’s emotional fragility. It is the story of Antoinette Cosway, a Creole heiress, caught in an oppressive patriarchal society in which she belongs neither to the Europeans nor to the Jamaicans. This critical study unravels the themes, motifs and symbols employed in Rhys’s layered text and attempts to answer several critical and textual problems arising therefrom for the benefit of our university students. Shakti Batra has been Vice-principal, Dyal Singh College (University of Delhi), has also taught at the Kabul University and the University of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek.

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