The third part depicts Antoinette’s disintegrating narration as Rochester confines her in the cold attic of Thornfield Hall. The second part unfolds the narration between Antoinette and her husband Rochester, in which he starts to impose his point of view. In the first part, Antoinette recalls her childhood at Coulibri and her life in the convent prior to her marriage to Rochester. She is married to an English man and this leads her to her end. This relation is also symbolized in Antoinette’s marriage. As the novel tells us about the relation between the oppressor (Britain) and the oppressed (Jamaica), the heroine is the subject of domination and humiliation by the system of the patriarchal and colonial oppression which is prevalent in England and Jamaica. In the character of Antoinette, she draws attention to the colonized people who are totally silenced, dehumanized and mistreated in the earlier colonial text. By reconstructing Bronte’s text Jane Eyre, Rhys unveils the issues related to the phenomenon of colonialism. A Creole herself, from Dominica, Rhys was mainly concerned with asserting the cultural identity of the natives in her Creole heroine Antoinette. Gul Koparanoglu (Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey) Įmail: Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys (1966) reflects the experience of women in patriarchal and colonial societies in the mid-nineteenth century. The Victim of Colonization: Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea Sektionsleiter | Section Chair: Atilla Silkü (Ege University, Izmir, Turkey) Globalization, Transnational Literatures, and Cross-Cultural Understanding

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