Wide Sargasso Sea (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean Rhys
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: Late 1830’s
- Setting: Jamaica, Dominica, and England
- Principal Characters: Antoinette (Bertha) Cosway, The Young Englishman, Christophine
- 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
The Story:
Antoinette’s immediate family consisted only of her impoverished, widowed mother and her idiot brother; a small number of black servants remained at the dilapidated Coulibri estate. Rejected by blacks and whites because of her mixed heritage and her family’s poverty, Antoinette drifted through a troubled and lonely childhood. Her mother ignored her, pushed her away without emotion of any kind, and only Christophine, the servant from Martinique, was kind and nurturing.
Annette Cosway, Antoinette’s mother, still young and beautiful, fought for survival by...
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