English for Lycée: Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
Œuvre au programme de lecture de l'épreuve orale d'anglais, langue de complément LV1, en série littéraire, pour l'examen du baccalauréat général, sessions 2005 et 2006
"an important lesson on the "objectivity" of narration and the importance of one's positionality as it retells Jane Eyre from a different perspective."
Selected online resources
Wide Sargasso Sea: Leading questions and major themes.
Rhys web safari (webquest). Download
Norton reading group guide to Wide Sargasso Sea.
IMDB entry for Wide Sargasso Sea.
Bibliomania study guide.
An overview: Jean Rhys (Biography, works, literary relations, caribbean, theme and subject, image and symbol, characterization, post-colonial theory, history, politics...)
History of the Sargasso Sea area.
Post-colonial discourse in Wide Sargasso Sea.
Charlotte Bronte and Jean Rhys The representation of the doubleness of selfhood in Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea...
Booknotes Jane Eyre - A useful breakdown of plot, themes, character and quotes which will undoubtedly provide useful background for the study of Wide Sargasso Sea.