Between and beyond boundaries in 'Wide Sargasso Sea.' (Third World Women's Inscriptions)

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The novel 'Wide Sargasso Sea' centers around the story of Bertha Mason, the mad creole wife in Bronte's 'Jane Eyre,' as recreated by Carribean-bred writer Jean Rhys. The novel itself abounds with thematic oppositions that provide it with much of its power since Rhys uses the juxtaposition of feminine and masculine, fiction and history, and black and white to create complex heroines that cannot simply be reduced to being termed 'abnormal.'

Oppositions - such as those between self and other, feminine and masculine, black and white, fiction and history - abound in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso ...

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