WIDE SARGASSO SEA THEORIES Flashcards
RUSHDIE (1982)
The Empire Writes Back With a Vengeance
“challenges Eurocentric histories of progress and civilisation by presenting images of the dehumanising effects of European colonialism”.
YOUNG (2003)
INTRO - Rhys relies
Emancipation of colonies relatively minor move from direct to indirect rule, a shift from colonial rule and domination to a position not so much of independence as of being in-dependence” -
The Emancipation Act of…?
PARA 2 - Identity
1833
Beginnings of social reformity instigated by and when…?
INTRO
Haitian revolution
1791
SU (2015)
PARA 2 - Identity
“in an environment in which social relations are defined primarily by racial identifications, the absence of clear identity categories for Antoinette disorients readers”
BARRY (2017)
PARA 3 - Rebellion in setting
“Characteristically, post-colonial writers evoke or create a precolonial version of their own nation, rejecting the modern and the contemporary which is tainted with the colonial status of their countries.”
SAID (1978)
PARA 4 ‘Plants’
Orientalism’, “the first characteristic of postcolonial criticism: an awareness of representation of non-Europeans as the exotic ‘Other’”.
ERIKKSON (2011)
PARA 5 - Gender
R’s role as the problematic hero in Jane Eyre who was simply abiding by the social hegemony of gender of the time.
SPIVAK (1997)
PARA 6 - Climax
Ant. “act(s) out the transformation of herself into the fictive other, set(ting) fire to the house and kill(ing) herself so that Jane Eyre can become the feminist individualist heroine of British fiction.”
HOWELLS (1991)
PARA 6 - Climax Rhys “can still challenge the limits and the blindness of imperialism, for her story makes it impossible ever to read Jane Eyre in the same way again now that the gaps in Bronte’s text have been exposed”
