드넓은 사가소 바다 연구: ‘사가소 바다’의 순환구조와 서사의 순환구조

Abstract

Caribbean-born writer Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea tells the story of Antoinette Mason drawn from Jane Eyre. The aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the circular structure in currents of the ‘Sargasso Sea’ and the circular characteristics in the narrative structure of the text. At first, currents and reproduction of sargassum symbolize the life of Afro-Caribbeans who were forced to leave their homeland and driven into a foreign land. Its circularity of currents are related to the circularity of narrators and the anachronistic narrative structure of Wide Sargasso Sea. This polyphonic form not only provides the chance for readers to integrate various narratives and grasp the essential facts through it but contains the emphasis of meanings according to the plural point-of-views. On the other hand, these limited unreliable narrators create the uncertainty of vision and interpretation, resisting fixity and stable identifications, for the ‘opened’ narrative structure. Lastly, through Antoinette’s clairvoyant dream, she tells the story which is highly limited in the real world, so dream and reality are mixed and circulated. So Rhys named the title of her novel as Wide Sargasso Sea to suggest the circular structure of the novel as a metaphor.