“Mirror, mirror on the wall, am I female or am I not?” Intertextual dialogue through writing the female body in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea

• Main Author: Natasha St Clare Alvar
• Other Authors: Angela Anne Frattarola
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/49579
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In Wide Sargasso Sea and Jane Eyre, both Rhys and Bronte emphasize the need for woman to write her own body, which is the source of her writing, and to express what masculine experience has always sought to suppress. Women writers must, as Helene Cixous says, “Write your self. Your body must be hear...