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Adaptation of Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys , 1966 single work novel
Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 Wide Sargasso Sea
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Wide Sargasso Sea is based on the 1966 postcolonial novel of the same name by Dominican-born author Jean Rhys. As with many postcolonial works, it deals with the themes of racial inequality and the harshness of displacement and assimilation.

The novel is essentially a prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847), telling the story of the first Mrs Rochester, a white Creole heiress caught in an oppressive patriarchal society in which she belongs neither to the white Europeans nor the black Jamaicans. Antoinette is a young female landowner who marries an Englishman (newly arrived in Jamaica) to avoid losing her property. All seems perfect, love arises, and happiness is on the way, but she is hiding an old secret regarding her childhood and her mother. The secret slowly begins to erode this perfect relationship and the young lovers are swept into a menage of black magic and erotic obsession that spirals into a climax of seduction, betrayal, and ultimately revenge.

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First known date: 1993

Works about this Work

Drowned in Indecision Evan Williams , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11-12 December 1993; (p. rev 13)

— Review of Wide Sargasso Sea Jan Sharp , Carole Angier , John Duigan , 1993 single work film/TV
Magic, Madness and Mrs Rochester Michael Hutak , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25 November 1993; (p. 26)

— Review of Wide Sargasso Sea Jan Sharp , Carole Angier , John Duigan , 1993 single work film/TV
Magic, Madness and Mrs Rochester Michael Hutak , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25 November 1993; (p. 26)

— Review of Wide Sargasso Sea Jan Sharp , Carole Angier , John Duigan , 1993 single work film/TV
Drowned in Indecision Evan Williams , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 11-12 December 1993; (p. rev 13)

— Review of Wide Sargasso Sea Jan Sharp , Carole Angier , John Duigan , 1993 single work film/TV
Last amended 19 Dec 2013 09:12:40
Subjects:
  • Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë , 1847 single work novel
  • c
    Jamaica,
    c
    Caribbean, Americas,
Settings:
  • ca. 1840s
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