Intertextuality, narrators and other voices in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea

Authors

  • Rosalia Angelita Neumann Garcia Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS
  • Mariana Lessa de Oliveira Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8120-5144

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/2176148525091

Keywords:

Wide Sargasso Sea, Jane Eyre, Intertextuality, Homodiegetic Narrators

Abstract

Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea is often perceived as a postcolonial response to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Although the two novels present intertextual relations, Rhys’ narrative structure both distances itself from Brontë’s narrative as well as complements it. It is the objective of this article to study the level of intertextuality Wide Sargasso Sea presents in relation to its 19th century counterpart as well as carry out an analysis on the types of narrators and focalization noticeable in the three separate units of the novel through the theories of homodiegetic narrators presented by Bal and Nieragden.

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Author Biographies

Rosalia Angelita Neumann Garcia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS

Possui graduação em Licenciatura em Letras, Habilitação Inglês Português pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (1991), mestrado em Literatura de Língua Inglesa pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (1994) e doutorado em Literatura de Língua Inglesa pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (2001). Pos-doutorado feito na University of Massachusetts, Amherst, em 2014-2015. Atualmente é professor titular da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. 

Mariana Lessa de Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS

Doutoranda em Letras pela UFRGS, mestre em Letras pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, e graduação em Licenciatura: inglês pela UFRGS. Possui especialização em Estudos de Tradução pela PUCRS.

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NIERAGDEN, G. Focalization and Narration: Theoretical and Terminological Refinements. Poetics Today, Vol. 23, No 4, Winter 2002, pp. 685-697.

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Published

2016-12-22

How to Cite

Garcia, R. A. N., & Oliveira, M. L. de. (2016). Intertextuality, narrators and other voices in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea. Letras, (53), p. 215. https://doi.org/10.5902/2176148525091