진 리스의 『광막한 사르가소 바다』에 나타난 성과 인종

Abstract

The aim of this thesis is to analyze racial tension and gender conflict in Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea focusing on main female characters, Antoinette, Annette, and Christophine. I examine the complex identity of Antoinette, a Creole woman who is situated between white Europeans and Afro-Caribbeans in the West Indies. And then I analyze Annette's ambivalent position in the dynamics of race and gender by examining how she is both a perpetrator and a victim. Through Antoinette, Annette, and Christophine, Rhys suggests that patriarchy and imperialism are inter-connected forces to exacerbate lives of women in the West Indies.