Jean Rhys:-
Jean Rhys was birn in Dominica, one of the Windward islands in the Caribbean, in 1890.The daughter of a Welsh doctor and a white Creole mother, Rhys grew up in the final days of England's colonial heyday, a time that witnessed the warning of an aristocratic and exploitative creole culture. Her parents heritage situated Rhys between two competing ideologies I - one that sought to exoticize Caribbean life and onecthat incorporated the racial pluralism of west Indian values. Rhys was further influenced by the black servants who raised her and introduced her to the language, customs, and religious beliefs of the native Caribbean.
Wide Sargasso Sea:-
While wide Sargasso Seareflacts the distinct sensibilities of a west Indian writer, it also bears the stamp of European modernism. At sixteen, Rhys left her home in Dominica and moved to England, aligning herself more closely with her father's welsh heritage. A feeling of displacement that characterizes both Rhys own life and the lives of her characters left her unable to root herself to her ancestors home. Throughout the 1920s, Rhys traveled in Europe as a bohemian artist, living sporadically in Paris, where she became familiar with the innovative works of modern artists and writers. This period of wandering placed Rhys on the outskirts of conventional society. Thus marginalized, she began to question the codes and traditions of the male - dominated urban environment plagued by property, illness, and alcoholism of the felt firsthand the psychological and physical toll of beina single woman in a patriarchal culture - a theme she explores in much of her writing.
Jean Rhys was birn in Dominica, one of the Windward islands in the Caribbean, in 1890.The daughter of a Welsh doctor and a white Creole mother, Rhys grew up in the final days of England's colonial heyday, a time that witnessed the warning of an aristocratic and exploitative creole culture. Her parents heritage situated Rhys between two competing ideologies I - one that sought to exoticize Caribbean life and onecthat incorporated the racial pluralism of west Indian values. Rhys was further influenced by the black servants who raised her and introduced her to the language, customs, and religious beliefs of the native Caribbean.
Wide Sargasso Sea:-
While wide Sargasso Seareflacts the distinct sensibilities of a west Indian writer, it also bears the stamp of European modernism. At sixteen, Rhys left her home in Dominica and moved to England, aligning herself more closely with her father's welsh heritage. A feeling of displacement that characterizes both Rhys own life and the lives of her characters left her unable to root herself to her ancestors home. Throughout the 1920s, Rhys traveled in Europe as a bohemian artist, living sporadically in Paris, where she became familiar with the innovative works of modern artists and writers. This period of wandering placed Rhys on the outskirts of conventional society. Thus marginalized, she began to question the codes and traditions of the male - dominated urban environment plagued by property, illness, and alcoholism of the felt firsthand the psychological and physical toll of beina single woman in a patriarchal culture - a theme she explores in much of her writing.
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