English Literature, Critical Approaches

An exploration of slavery’s ‘slow violence’ and its impacts on Antoinette and other white creoles in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea. Last document update:   ago

I provide a 1,500 word meditation on Jean Rhys’s daring and unconventional novel Wide Sargasso Sea. My reflection focuses upon the slow violence of slavery, exploring its insidious impacts upon Antoinette and other white creoles in the text. This essay builds towards the conclusion that the significant delay between slavery and its repercussion on white creoles could easily serve to conceal the causal connection between the two. However, in Wide Sargasso Sea, Rhys makes this relationship v...