“Voice” Under the Colonial Oppression

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220401.140How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Wide Sargasso Sea; post-colonial; “voices”; hidden language

Abstract

As a European classical text admired crazily by feminists, Jane Eyre, whose heroine Jane Eyre undoubtedly owns popular recognition for her rebellious female image with strong personality, graced temperament, as well as courage to pursue equality and free love. While shaping a positive image of Jane Eyre, Bronte also creates another distinct female image, Bertha, nothing but a mad silence haunting in the attic of Thornfield Manor. With the colonies of the British Empire declaring their independence one after another from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s, this image has been more and more widely and deeply interpreted from new perspectives, among which Wide Sargasso Sea, as a re-written post-colonial text of Jane Eyre, injects vitality and soul into the mad body, gives a voice to the voiceless “doll”, thus it provides an opportunity for readers to know the back story in the colonial context. This essay will discuss how, and to what extent, this literary text has exposed, challenged the prevailing Eurocentrism.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Hongmei Yuan
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/08
TI  - “Voice” Under the Colonial Oppression
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 736
EP  - 739
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220401.140
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220401.140
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