Wide Sargasso Sea : Backgrounds, Criticism

Jean Rhys; Judith L Raiskin
W. W. Norton & Company
9780393960129
0-393-96012-9

Textual notes illuminate the novel s historical background, regional references, and the non-translated Creole and French phrases necessary to fully understand this powerful story. Backgrounds includes.

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a wealth of material on the novel s long evolution, it connections to Jane Eyre, and Rhys s biographical impressions of growing up in Dominica. Criticism introduces readers to the critical debates inspired by the novel with a Derek Walcott poem and eleven essays."