COLONIZER AND COLONIST. (RE)DEFINING THE OTHER IN JANE EYRE AND WIDE SARGASSO SEA Cover Image

COLONIZER AND COLONIST. (RE)DEFINING THE OTHER IN JANE EYRE AND WIDE SARGASSO SEA
COLONIZER AND COLONIST. (RE)DEFINING THE OTHER IN JANE EYRE AND WIDE SARGASSO SEA

Author(s): Aura PANDELE
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Arhipelag XXI
Keywords: postcolonialism; the Other; colonizer; colonist; Victorian

Summary/Abstract: The cultural canon was subject to significant transformations throughout the 20th century. The stranger/Other, as the representative individual of a culture under the colonial ruling of the British Empire, is seen through the values and expectations of the colonizer in Charlotte Brontëřs novel. Dominican writer Jean Rhys sets a wider context for the Victorian characters by writing a prequel that empowers the silenced character of Antoinette Mason. The expansion of the omnipresent Victorian narrator into several first-person narratives mirrors the Eurocentric perspective dissipated into a multitude of centers outside the metropolis, each demanding its own voice in the global literary canon.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 07
  • Page Range: 435-442
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English