Displaced Women’s Quest for Home in Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea and The Woman of Colour
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This article investigates the ways in which the marriage plots help to marginalize and isolate the biracial daughters of white colonizer and colored woman. While the three novels, Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, and The Woman of Colour, portray three women’s journeys, only Jane Eyre recovers her home by inheriting money from her uncle. Jane’s use of the slave-trope betrays the colonial mechanism that is based on the inversion between the invader and the invaded. Although Jane uses the rhetoric of a fugitive slave, she becomes a traveler who recovers home. By contrast, the mulatta characters fail to find a home after coming to their fathers’ country, being regarded as the intruders though they are in fact invaded and suppressed by white people. The tragic fate of the mulatta daughters/wives illuminates the colonial agenda that seeks to bring the wealth from outside to inside England while making the colonized subjects remain homeless and displaced.
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This article investigates the ways in which the marriage plots help to marginalize and isolate the biracial daughters of white colonizer and colored woman. While the three novels, Jane Eyre, Wide Sargasso Sea, and The Woman of Colour, portray three women’s journeys, only Jane Eyre recovers her home by inheriting money from her uncle. Jane’s use of the slave-trope betrays the colonial mechanism that is based on the inversion between the invader and the invaded. Although Jane uses the rhetoric of a fugitive slave, she becomes a traveler who recovers home. By contrast, the mulatta characters fail to find a home after coming to their fathers’ country, being regarded as the intruders though they are in fact invaded and suppressed by white people. The tragic fate of the mulatta daughters/wives illuminates the colonial agenda that seeks to bring the wealth from outside to inside England while making the colonized subjects remain homeless and displaced.
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