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Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea is a retelling of Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre. Discuss it as a Postcolonial text.

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Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea as a Postcolonial Retelling of Jane Eyre Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea is a powerful postcolonial response to Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel Jane Eyre. Published in 1966, the novel gives a voice and a backstory to Bertha Mason, the so-called “madwoman in the attic” in Jane Eyre. Rhys reimagines Bertha […]

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Discuss Midnight’s Children as postcolonial novel.

Discuss Midnight’s Children as postcolonial novel Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children is one of the most famous postcolonial novels in English literature. It tells the story of Saleem Sinai, a boy born at the exact moment when India became independent on August 15, 1947. Through his life story, the novel explores the history of India after