Lost in the Bermuda Triangle: The Significance of Locations in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

• Authors: Cristina-Georgiana Voicu
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper attempts to show in what way the exotic island of Jamaica expose the main characters and their fate. This part of the Atlantic Ocean seems to be torn between two different cultures, and also covers the notorious and mysterious Bermuda Triangle. The title is also foreboding for the protagonist’s fate: she will get just as lost into madness as ships in the Sargasso Sea.

Keywords

EN

Caribbean islandscape; cultural identity; location metaphors; periphery of consciousness

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 147-153

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-02-21

Contributors

author

Cristina-Georgiana Voicu

• Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iaşi

References

• Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. 1993. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures. London: Routledge.
• Dash, Michael. 1998. The Other America: Caribbean Literature in a New World Context, Virginia: University Press of Virginia.
• Emery, Mary Lou. 1990. Jean Rhys at “World’s End” novels of colonial and sexual exile. Austin: University of Texas Press Rhys, Jean. 1999. Wide Sargasso Sea. New York W.W. Norton & Company Inc.
• Staley, Thomas F. 1979. Jean Rhys: A Critical Study. London: MacMillan
• Su, John J. “‘Once I Would Have Gone Back... But Not Any Longer’: Nostalgia and Narrative Ethics in Wide Sargasso Sea”. Critique, January 1, 2003, Vol. 44, Issue 2.

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10319-012-0016-9