Wide Sargasso Sea | Historical Context
Rhys wrote Wide Sargasso Sea between 1945 and 1966. Critic Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell writes in ‘‘The Paradoxes of Belonging: The White West Indian Woman in Fiction,’’ that the novel is a ''response to the nationalistic mood in [the West Indies] of the late 1950s and 1960s.’’ During this time period Jamaica became independent of Britain (in 1962). Dominica, the country of Rhys's birth and the setting for Part II, did not become independent until 1978. In these times of change, which also saw a large influx of West Indian immigrants into England, the relations between...
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