"Now every word she said was echoed, echoed loudly in my head": Christophine's Language and Refractive Space in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea

Journal of Narrative Theory : JNT | January 1, 2007| | Copyright

Christophine's provocative role in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea has generated a tremendous quantity of inquiry: the turn to Christophine arose largely out of debate over Spivak's watershed essay "Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism" from 1985. Spivak ignited a firestorm in Rhys criticism with her oft-quoted passage:

Christophine is tangential to this narrative. She cannot be contained by a novel which rewrites a canonical English text within the European novelistic tradition in the interest of the white Creole rather than the native. No perspective critical of imperialism can ...

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