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The Empire Writes Back:

Jane Eyre

Page Index

Click these links to go to the major sub-sections.

• Charlotte Bronte Writes the Empire--Jane Eyre
  
  
• Caribbean Responses -- authors alphabetized
  
  

Writing the Empire

Charlotte Bronte (England), Jane Eyre

• Plot Overview --helpful plot summary of Jane Eyre.
• Jane Eyre: Read Chapters 25 and 26. (If the following links don't work, try this alternate copy: Jane Eyre.)
  • Chapter 25--the night before Jane's wedding.
  • Chapter 26--Jane's wedding day.

• Charlotte Bronte --biography.
• Notes on Bronte's Jane Eyre--helpful commentary.
• Jane Eyre: An Introduction --Joyce Carol Oates' excellent introduction to an edition of the novel.
• Colonial Discourse in Jane Eyre--short but helpful commentary.
• "Jane's all White": An Examination of Victorian Chromatic Anxiety in Bronte's Jane Eyre-- scholarly post-colonial reading by a graduate-student.
• The Illustrated London News, Colonialism, and Jane Eyre--Colonialist discourse in the novel.
• The Representation of the Doubleness of Selfhood in Bronte's Jane Eyre and Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea--interesting scholarly essay.

Caribbean Responses

Jean Binta Breeze (Jamaica)

• soun de abeng fi nanny--e-text; poem.
• Jean Binta Breeze--biography and commentary.
• Interview: Jean Binta Breeze--biography and comments on her 'dub' poetry.

Michelle Cliff (Jamaica)

• Michelle Cliff--biography with some commentary.
• Cliff Biography--biography and commentary.
• Biography/Commentary--on Abeng and other works.
• Study Questions: Abeng
• Three Perspectives on the Caribbean --helpful student paper on three contexts for reading Cliff and other Caribbean novelists.
• Clare Savage as a Crossroads Character"--Cliff's extended commentary on her fictional heroine.
• 'How many souls collide underwater? Enough.':Reading Michelle Cliff's 'Bodies of Water'as an Activist HIV/AIDS Narrative--Davidson's scholarly article.

Edwidge Danticat (Haiti)

• Between the Pool and the Gardenias--e-text; short story from Krik Krak!
• The Missing Peace--e-text; short story from Krik Krak!
• Lost shadows and Stick Figures--e-text; story.
• Voices in a Dream--e-text; story.
• We Are Ugly, But We Are Here--essay by Danticat.
• Edwidge Danticat--biography.
• Krik? Krak! Tales of a Nightmare--historical context for Krik? Krak!
• Krik Krak!: A Reader's Guide--helpful guide, with many related links.
• Reading Questions for "Children of the Sea"--from Krik? Krak!
• Reading Questions for "1937"--from Krik? Krak!
• Reading Questions for "Wall of Fire Rising" --from Krik? Krak!
• Reading Questions--for "Night Women" and "Between the Pool and the Gardenias" (Krik? Krak!).
• Reading Questions for "Caroline's Wedding"--from Krik? Krak!
• Edwidge Danticat's Krik Krak!--book review
• Re-writing the Male Text: Mapping Cultural Spaces in Danticat's Krik? Krak! and Kincaid's A Small Place--Poon's scholarly article.
• Haitians in the City: Two Modern-Day Trickster Tales--Gyssel's scholarly article; covers Danticat's "New York Day Women"

Lorna Goodison (Jamaica)

• Nanny--e-text; poem.
• Guinea Woman--e-text; poem.
• Jamaica 1980--e-text; poem.
• Lorna Goodison's Literary Manuscripts--biography and commentary on her works.

Grace Nichols (Guyana)

• Of Course When They Ask for Poems About the 'Realities'of Black Women--e-text; poem.
• Grace Nichols--biography and commentary.
• I is a long-memoried woman--Merle Collins' excellent review of Nichols' volume of poetry.

Marlene Nourbese-Philip (Tobago)

• Marlene Nourbese Philip--biography.
• English Is a Foreign Anguish: Caribbean Writers and the Disruption of the Colonial Canon--Wilentz's scholarly article; includes a section on Nourbese-Philip.

Jean Rhys (Dominica)

• Reading Group Guide--reading questions and biography of Rhys.
• Rhys Biography.
• Jean Rhys--biography.
• Jean Rhys: Introduction-- biography and helpful commentary on the novel.
• Christophine site on the History and Literature of the Caribbean--commentary on Wide Sargasso Sea and many helpful links.
• Postcolonial Discourse in Wide Sargasso Sea--helpful commentary on the novel.
• Postmodernism and Postcolonialism: Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea --good student essay.
• Caribbean Women Writers--good student essay on identity theme in Rhys' novel.
• The Sargasso Sea--good history of this mysterious area.
• Images of Spanish Town and Dominica--photos.
• Subversion in Women's Fiction: Power Relations And Alienation in Rhys's "Wide Sargasso Sea" and Roy's "The God of Small Things" --helpful essay.
• The Representation of the Doubleness of Selfhood in Bronte's Jane Eyre and Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea--interesting scholarly essay.

Elaine Savory (Barbadoes)

• The First Stone--e-text; poem responding to Rhys novel.
• Flame Tree Time--e-text; poem responding to Rhys novel.
• Bona Vista--e-text; poem responding to Rhys novel.

Simone Schwartz-Bart (Guadeloupe)

• Simone Schwartz-Bart--biography.

Olive Senior (Jamaica)

• Yemoja: Mother of Waters--e-text; poem
• Olive Senior--biography.

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Updated: 1-24-03

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