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| | | Article Name : | | | Madness as a Cross-Racial Predicament in Jean
Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea | | Author Name : | | | MUHAMMAD AZMAT
| | Publisher : | | | Bridge Center | | Article URL : |  | | | Abstract : | | | Madness as a theme is very recurrent in the Caribbean
literature. However, the term madness is not as simple to be defined
particularly with reference to the Caribbean texts written in English
between 1959 and 1980. These texts relate madness to more than one
meaning. In this connection, Jean Rhys’s novel Wide Sargasso Sea
(WSS) presents a superb example, relating madness to various types of
dilemma and delirium in a cross-racial Caribbean context. For this
purpose, first of all, the related literature was reviewed on the concept
of madness in light of the notions of three eminent critics and theorists,
such as, Frantz Fanon, Michel Foucault, and R. D. Laing. Next, the
relevant discourses and incidents from WSS were analysed and
interpreted in light of the aforementioned views on madness. On the
basis of the analysis and discussion, it was concluded that, in WSS,
Rhys relates madness to deep and varied meanings, that is, the search
of identity, alienation, and split self (i.e., schizophrenia) on the part of
Creole female colonized, the vengefulness, bruised nationalistic spirit,
and collective delirium on the part of the Blacks, and the
estrangement, schizophrenia, and an obsession of oppressive behaviour
on the part of the White colonizers from the conservative, patriarchal
Victorian culture of England. | | Keywords : | | | Caribbean, Colonized, Creole, Discourse, Double
Colonization, Female, Madness, Oppressive, Patriarchy |
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