by Özlem Recebli̇
Proceedings of the 5th International Congress of Language and Translation Studies
(Selçuk University in Konya, Turkey, alongside the Azerbaijan University of Languages
September 24–26, 2025), pp 626
Wide Sargasso Sea, written by Jean Rhys in 1966. It is the rewriting of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. The main character Antoinette grows up in a troubled environment marked by racial tensions and the aftermath of slavery. She and her family struggle with financial instability and social isolation. Also, Antoinette feels increasingly alienated from both the black and white communities around her. After her father’s death she and her mother Annette eventually marry foreign men. However, their relationships become strained due to cultural misunderstandings, and the reader sees kind a madwoman in the attic figure. In this context, this paper aims to analyse main character’s mother Annette's and main character Antoinette's change before and after their marriages to their husbands in the context of how migration, race, and class influence notions of love and emotions in the light of Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s ideas, particularly her critique of the homogenization of “Third World women” and the “Western feminist gaze”. The analysis will also explore the novel through the lens of the politics of location using the Caren Kaplan’s and Adrianne Rich’s ideas. Also, the paper aims to address the themes of madness, loneliness and migration interpreting Antoinette’s and Annette’s mental decline as a result of intersectional forces such as race, gender, class, and colonial displacement, echoing the insights of scholars like
Eleanor Wilkinson and Denise Brennan. By examining how migration, race, and class influence notions of love and emotions, this paper underscores the importance of amplifying marginalized voices, regardless of the often painful or unjust conclusions of their stories.
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