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The ‘Otherness’ of the ‘Other’ in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

Cilt: 2 Sayı: 2 30 Aralık 2022
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The ‘Otherness’ of the ‘Other’ in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

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The aim of this study is to analyse a postcolonial novel Wide Sargasso Sea, written by Jean Rhys, in 1966 as a counter text to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre nearly a century after. Rhys rewrites the story of Rochester’s first wife Bertha, and gives her the voice she is denied. She intends to depict the ‘other’ side of the reality - the portrayal of a woman rebelling against the role imposed upon her, her objection to becoming a doll - like woman without any selfhood and at last her release from the repression of any kind. In the three fragmented worlds she constructs within the world of her novel, she problematizes the authorial figure shifting the reader’s attention away from one narrative to the other. Rhys challenges the realistic representation with her frame of texts within texts. Her fiction is rather a ‘verbal reality,’ constructed by two different narrators who are experiencing the strife between self and the other. Rhys, on purpose, creates an ambiguity in her novel and opens it to question by blurring the reality and fiction. She decentralizes the Jane/Bertha structure in Jane Eyre and inverts the privileged and the unprivileged elements in her attempt to unveil the ‘otherness’ of the ‘other’ in race, class and genderwise. As a result of the interrelatedness of the two novels, meaning is multiple, not fixed and always in the run.

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  1. Brontë, C. (1985). Jane Eyre. London: Penguin Books. Bronte, C. 1 April 1843. [Letter from Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 1843]. The Shakespeare Head Bronte – The Life and Letters, Volume I, p. 296. Bronte, C. 11 June [1851]. [Letter from Charlotte Bronte to Amelia Ringrose, [1851], The Shakespeare Head Brontë-The Life and Letters, Volume III, p. 245. Bronte, C. 28 July 1848. [Letter from Charlotte Bronte to Ellen Nussey, 1848], The Shakespeare Head Brontë-The Life and Letters, Volume II, p. 239. Derrida, J. (1976). Of Grammatology. (Trans. by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak). Baltimore: John Hopkins University. Gilbert, S., & Gubar S. (1979). The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. Moglen, H. (1976). Charlotte Brontë: The Self Conceived. New York: WW Norton and Company Inc. Rhys, J. (1992). Wide Sargasso Sea. (Introduction by Francis Wyndham). New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc. "Slavery Abolition Act 1833; Section LXIV" (http://www.pdavis.nl/Legis_07.htm). 1833-08-28.Retrieved from https://resources.saylor.org/wwwresources/archived/site/wpcontent/uploads/2011/05/Slavery-Abolition-Act-1833.pdf. Waugh, P. (1984). Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction. London and New York: Methuen.

Ayrıntılar

Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Dünya Dilleri, Edebiyatı ve Kültürü (Diğer), Sanat ve Edebiyat

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yazarlar

Semra Saraçoğlu Bu kişi benim
0000-0001-8331-7705
Türkiye

Yayımlanma Tarihi

30 Aralık 2022

Gönderilme Tarihi

26 Temmuz 2022

Kabul Tarihi

22 Eylül 2022

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2022 Cilt: 2 Sayı: 2

Kaynak Göster

APA
Saraçoğlu, S. (2022). The ‘Otherness’ of the ‘Other’ in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea. World Language Studies, 2(2), 152-162. https://izlik.org/JA44KP46PN
AMA
1.Saraçoğlu S. The ‘Otherness’ of the ‘Other’ in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea. WLS. 2022;2(2):152-162. https://izlik.org/JA44KP46PN
Chicago
Saraçoğlu, Semra. 2022. “The ‘Otherness’ of the ‘Other’ in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea”. World Language Studies 2 (2): 152-62. https://izlik.org/JA44KP46PN.
EndNote
Saraçoğlu S (01 Aralık 2022) The ‘Otherness’ of the ‘Other’ in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea. World Language Studies 2 2 152–162.
IEEE
[1]S. Saraçoğlu, “The ‘Otherness’ of the ‘Other’ in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea”, WLS, c. 2, sy 2, ss. 152–162, Ara. 2022, [çevrimiçi]. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA44KP46PN
ISNAD
Saraçoğlu, Semra. “The ‘Otherness’ of the ‘Other’ in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea”. World Language Studies 2/2 (01 Aralık 2022): 152-162. https://izlik.org/JA44KP46PN.
JAMA
1.Saraçoğlu S. The ‘Otherness’ of the ‘Other’ in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea. WLS. 2022;2:152–162.
MLA
Saraçoğlu, Semra. “The ‘Otherness’ of the ‘Other’ in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea”. World Language Studies, c. 2, sy 2, Aralık 2022, ss. 152-6, https://izlik.org/JA44KP46PN.
Vancouver
1.Semra Saraçoğlu. The ‘Otherness’ of the ‘Other’ in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea. WLS [Internet]. 01 Aralık 2022;2(2):152-6. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA44KP46PN

World Language Studies