Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (PG IV)
About the Author
Online Annotated Text
Documentaries
- Stealing Africa – Documentary
- BBC Empire – A Taste for Power (1 of 5)
- BBC Empire Episode 2 – Making Ourselves at Home Documentary – Jeremy Paxman
- BBC Empire Episode 3 Playing the Game
- BBC Empire – Episode 4 Making a Fortune Jeremy Paxman
- BBC Empire – Episode 5 – Final Episode – Doing Good – Jeremy Paxman
Audio/Video Lectures
- The Post Colonialism by Prof. Anand Prakash
- Decolonization: The End of Empire? – Professor Richard J. Evans
- Introduction: What is Postcolonialism? – Prof. Sayan Chattopadhyay
Movie Adaptation
Wide Sargasso Sea 1993 (use earphone as the sound is not clear)
Scholarly Article:
- The Postcolonial Rewriting of Colonial Stories: Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea
- What Is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon by ANKHI MUKHERJEE
- Rewriting empire: Rewriting canonical British texts from a postcolonial perspective
- About Two Concepts: Postmodernism and Rewriting
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Main Topics
- Wide Sargasso Sea as a postcolonial text
- Parent-child relationships in Wide Sargasso Sea
- Restructuring of madness
- Gynecological Perspective in the novel
Questions
- Discuss the patriarchal and colonial implications of the scene in which Rochester goes to bed with Amelie in Wide Sargasso Sea.
- What is the significance of slavery and entrapment in Wide Sargasso Sea?
- Analyze the representation of romantic love and the institution of marriage in Wide Sargasso Sea.
- How are Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea connected?
- What is the role/significance of revenge in Wide Sargasso Sea?