Wide Sargasso Sea (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean Rhys
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: Late 1830’s
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Culture, Caribbean, Love or romance, Race, Nature, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Alienation, England or English people, Jamaica or Jamaicans
- Locales: England, West Indies, Jamaica, Dominica, Windward Islands
Places Discussed
*England. Although only the brief third section of the novel actually takes place in England, the country’s influence reverberates throughout. All the people in power are English: Antoinette’s father, stepfather, stepbrother, and husband; Aunt Cora’s husband; the island police; and the people in Spanish Town, Jamaica. Antoinette admires an English girl in a painting called “The Miller’s Daughter” but identifies with Tia, an African American girl. Antoinette cannot believe that England is real, just as Christophine does not believe its reality...
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