Intersecciones entre la mujer, la ecocrítica y el postcolonialismo en Wide Sargasso Sea de Jean Rhys.

Abstract

Ecocriticism and its natural branches with ethnic and feminine implications enable contemporary rereadings of the classics and other forgotten texts stemming from the outskirts of the Western world and women’s pen. Between reverence and irreverence to the Empire’s ideology and the English literary Establishment, Creole writer Jean Rhys’ novel Wide Sargasso Sea illustrates the reevaluation of the Caribbean landscapes in the second half of the 20th century, in line with the exploitation, marginalization and oppression of the mad wife and black people in hands of a British landowner. Extracted from the riotous context of the West Indies in the 19th century and Charlotte Brontë’s fiction Jane Eyre, Rhys’ narrative eventually leads to a compelling, but equivocal, textual resolution between fight and flight.