Narrative control: The colonizer’s voice, fragmentation, and naming in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargaso Sea

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Titel: Narrative control: The colonizer’s voice, fragmentation, and naming in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargaso Sea
Autoren: Gonzàlez Vidal, Mar
Weitere Verfasser: Grau Perejoan, Maria
Quelle: Treballs Finals de Grau (TFG)-Estudis Anglesos
Verlagsinformationen: 2025.
Publikationsjahr: 2025
Schlagwörter: Postcolonialism, Narrative control, Identity, Control narratiu, Bachelor's theses, Treballs de fi de grau, Postcolonialisme, Identitat
Beschreibung: [eng] This paper explores Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea as a postcolonial response to Jane Eyre. It focuses on how Rhys uses narrative voice, naming, and fragmentation to underscore her criticism of colonial discourses. Through theorists such as Said, Spivak, and Bhabha, I use postcolonial theory to explore how Antoinette’s identity might be shaped and controlled. Overall, this paper argues that the novel's language and structure play a crucial role in exposing the process of dispossession and control that Antoinette suffers, as well as in challenging traditional narration and asking the reader for active interpretation.
Treballs Finals del Grau d'Estudis Anglesos, Facultat de Filologia, Universitat de Barcelona. Curs: 2024-2025. Tutora: Maria Grau Perejoan
Publikationsart: Bachelor thesis
Dateibeschreibung: application/pdf
Sprache: English
Zugangs-URL: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/223473
Rights: CC BY NC ND
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Datenbank: OpenAIRE
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Abstract:[eng] This paper explores Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea as a postcolonial response to Jane Eyre. It focuses on how Rhys uses narrative voice, naming, and fragmentation to underscore her criticism of colonial discourses. Through theorists such as Said, Spivak, and Bhabha, I use postcolonial theory to explore how Antoinette’s identity might be shaped and controlled. Overall, this paper argues that the novel's language and structure play a crucial role in exposing the process of dispossession and control that Antoinette suffers, as well as in challenging traditional narration and asking the reader for active interpretation.<br />Treballs Finals del Grau d'Estudis Anglesos, Facultat de Filologia, Universitat de Barcelona. Curs: 2024-2025. Tutora: Maria Grau Perejoan