It recasts Jane’s paramour as at worst, the villain, and, at most moderate, a cad and the inconvenient wife as not so much mad – okay, yes, she’s mad by novel’s end – but broken. LAST CHANCE re that particular spoiler…okay, Wide Sargasso Sea is an empire writes back tale in that the main female protagonist is the shadowy mad wife who burns down the house in Jane Eyre and this the story of how she came to be there. I mean, the latter quite literally as the book’s end – no secret but spoilery – intersects with a key moment in the classic by iconic British female author Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre. It also rightly claims its space in the genre occupied by books dealing with gender, with women battling their socially confining and in some ways maddening and potentially fatal circumstances. a long time ago – but because it is beautifully written and explores essential Caribbean themes: identity and belongingness race and the impact of colonialism and, explicitly, in this case, slavery (rather, post-slavery) and specifically the uneven relationship between England and her former colonies.
Wide Sargasso Sea by Dominica-born Jean Rhys is a Caribbean classic, and not just because it was published in the 1960s – i.e.
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