Trauma in Jean Rhy'sWide Sargasso Sea
Date
2016
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Central Department of English
Abstract
Jean Rhys explores trauma of black characters in her fiction Wide Sargasso Sea.
Antoinette is neglected and discriminated because of her Creole identity. So, she
narrativizes the pain, dislocation, madness, identity crisis, class discrimination
towards the colonized in the Caribbean society. Throughout the text, female
characters are traumatized. Antoinette and Annette become victims of traumatic
experience in the socio-economic scenario of nineteenth century England.Her
husband, Rochester, treats Antoinette as an animal, barbaric, irrational, monstrous,
and abnormal being. So, she expresses traumatic memory, feeling, emotion and
torture to reduce the intensity of trauma. Black characters narrativize that the
contemporary society was gender-biased, racist and colonialist.
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Trauma, Fiction