About the lecture

In this module, Janelle introduces Jean Rhys and her 1966 novel, 'Wide Sargasso Sea'. After talking about the author herself, we then discuss the general structure of the book and its relation to Charlotte Bronte's 'Jane Eyre'

About the lecturer

Janelle is a doctoral student at Newcastle University, writing on fictional representations of Obeah (a syncretic spiritual, religious and medicinal system developed in the Caribbean by enslaved Africans) in the Anglophone Caribbean.

Her research interests include theories of the novel, identity politics, nationalism in literature and literary activism, African spirituality, race and representation, travel writing, inherited trauma, creolisation, hybridity and globalisation.