ABSTRACT

Antoinette Cosway Mason in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), whom her English husband later calls Bertha—the name of a mad white Creole woman in Jane Eyre—has been a focus of discussion of Rhys’s novel, particularly regarding her madness and its implications of feminism and (post)colonialism. However, although largely neglected, depicting the post-emancipation British West Indies around the 1830s, Rhys represents various forms of physical and mental symptoms of madness, expressed not just by the white Creole woman but also by two important groups—white male colonizers and African Caribbeans. By focusing on the under-examined symptoms of madness, I will analyze how they reveal changing socioeconomic systems and the continuity of exploitation after emancipation. This reading also suggests how Rhys’s novel about the 1830s West Indies reflects her own madness/anger about her contemporary post-colonial world of the mid-twentieth century.

摘要

简·里斯 ( Jean Rhys) 的宽阔马尾藻海(1966) 中的安托瓦内特·科斯威·梅森 (Antoinette Cosway Mason)，她的英国丈夫后来称她为伯莎——《简爱》中一位疯狂的白人克里奥尔女人的名字——一直是里斯小说的讨论焦点，尤其是关于她的疯狂及其对女权主义和（后）殖民主义的影响。然而，尽管很大程度上被忽视了，但里斯描绘了 1830 年代解放后的英属西印度群岛，它代表了各种形式的疯狂的身心症状，不仅表现在克里奥尔白人妇女身上，而且表现在两个重要群体——白人男性殖民者和非洲人身上。加勒比海。通过关注疯狂的未被充分检查的症状，我将分析它们如何揭示不断变化的社会经济系统和解放后剥削的连续性。这种阅读还暗示了里斯关于 1830 年代西印度群岛的小说如何反映她自己对 20 世纪中叶当代后殖民世界的疯狂/愤怒。