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In this Reader's Guide, Carl Plasa provides a comprehensive survey and analysis of the most stimulating critical responses to Wide Sargasso Sea. The opening chapter outlines initial reactions to the novel from English and Caribbean critics, charting the differences between them. Chapter Two explores Wide Sargasso Sea's dialogue with Jane Eyre and the theoretical questions it has raised. Succeeding chapters examine how critics have assessed the racial politics of Rhys's text, discuss the novel's African Caribbean cultural legacy, and explore how critics read the work both in terms of its moment of production and the early Victorian period in which it is set. Throughout, Plasa contextualizes and clarifies the critical exchanges which this daring and dramatic novel has provoked.
| ISBN | 184046268X | | Pages | 176 | | ISBN13 | 9781840462685
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | | Weight (grammes) | 248 | | Imprint | Palgrave Macmillan | | Published in | Basingstoke | | Format | Paperback | | Series editor | Tredell, Nicolas | | Publication date | 19 Nov 2001 | | Series title | Icon Reader's Guides to Essential Criticism S. | | Non-book description | book | | Height (mm) | 215 | | Library of Congress | 2002405946 | | Width (mm) | 138 | | DEWEY | 813 | | Spine width (mm) | 11 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | A / AS level, Undergraduate, General |
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Introduction 'A Considerable Tour de Force by Any Standard': Reviews and Early Criticism 'The Creole is of Course the Important One': Rewriting Jane Eyre 'Like Goes to Like': Race and the Politics of Identification 'There is Always the Other Side': African Caribbean Perspectives 'Not Even Much Record': The Place of History Notes Select Bibliography Acknowledgements Index
'I continue to find the Readers' Guides indispensable for teaching - they really give the students a sense of criticism having a history' - Professor Rachel Bowlby, University of York 'The series looks really excellent - attractively produced, user friendly; and outstanding value for money' - Ronald Knowles, Reader, University of Reading  Be the first to write a customer review
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