Wide Sargasso Sea: Subaltern Women's Plight

Abstract

The Present research is an inquiry on the plight of the subaltern womenin Wide Sargasso Sea,especially the plight of the major character, Antoinette which is vehemently different from the predicament of the women in the mainstream context. The subaltern women are doubly oppressed and unheard within their patriarchal socio-cultural and colonial as well as even post colonial situation. Antoinette experiences the similar predicament and loses her woman subjectivity and women identity as a whole. Consequently, being stressed by self disgust and displacement she gets mad. She gets misrepresented and manipulated which is the very plight of subaltern women.