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Wide Sargasso Sea: Real and Imaginary Islands

Born and raised on the Caribbean island of Dominica, Jean Rhys used her native home as the setting for a novel derived from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. This program, filmed on location, explores the profound and complex effects of Dominica’s landscape, history, and culture on the writing of Wide Sargasso Sea. Scholars, cultural historians, and Rhys’ biographer, Carole Angier, discuss these influences on the book, as well as the notion of the historical novel as a hybrid literary creation. Produced by the Open University. (30 minutes)



 
    

Item#: BVL29941
Copyright date: ©1997
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-7152-8




     
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