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Jean Rhys : Wide Sargasso Sea / edited by Carl Plasa ; consultant editor, Nicolas Tredell.
Van Pelt Library PR6035.H96 W5 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Icon readers' guides
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rhys, Jean. Wild Sargasso Sea.
- Rhys, Jean.
- Caribbean Area--In literature.
- Caribbean Area.
- Physical Description:
- 176 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Icon Books, 2001.
- Summary:
- In this Reader's Guide, Carl Plasa provides a comprehensive survey and analysis of the most stimulating critical responses to" Wide Sargasso Sea." The opening chapter outlines initial reactions to the novel from English and Caribbean critics, charting the differences between them. Chapter Two explores "Wide Sargasso Sea" 's dialogue with "Jane Eyre" and the theoretical questions it has raised. Succeeding chapters examine how critics have assessed the racial politics of Rhys's text, discuss the novel's African Caribbean cultural legacy, and explore how critics read the work both in terms of its moment of production and the early Victorian period in which it is set.
- Notes:
- "A reader's guide to essential criticism"--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-164) and index.
- ISBN:
- 184046268X
- OCLC:
- 50767908
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