‘What happened to Amélie?’ - The other ‘Other’ in Wide Sargasso Sea
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This paper is about Amélie, one of “the other others" who lived on the colonial island where Bertha Antoinette Mason, “the other" in Jane Eyre, had lived before her marriage in the past times created for her by Jean Rhys. Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), the prequel of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847), is one of the most famous rewritings in the history of literature. Wide Sargasso Sea covers the life of Antoinette Cosway that is the non-English side the story of Bertha Mason, who was imprisoned in the attic by her husband who married her for money. The main element that causes the problem here is the ethnic origin of Antoinette. People from the descendants of white European settlers who live in colonial islands are called Creoles and they are seen as “the other”. However, there are non-Creole women in the novel as well, i.e. the black indigenous ones. Although slavery has been officially abolished, the racist-sexist behaviours that have been exposed to hierarchical subordinate and oppressed local women due to their skin colour have been found worthy of examination by the authors of this article. This analysis will be based on the evaluations of the hierarchical structure of the slavery period American society in Ain't I a Woman Black Women and Feminism (1981) written by African-American feminist writer bell hooks who addresses the stories and problems of ethnically non-Western women who have long been ignored by the feminist discourse.
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Birincil Dil
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Konular
Sanat ve Edebiyat
Bölüm
Kitap İncelemesi
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31 Temmuz 2019
Gönderilme Tarihi
30 Mayıs 2019
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19 Haziran 2019
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Yıl 2019 Cilt: 9 Sayı: 2