@article{Niroula_2021, title={Rhetoric of Post-Colonial Mindset in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea}, volume={5}, url={https://nepjol.info/index.php/craiaj/article/view/40489}, DOI={10.3126/craiaj.v5i1.40489}, abstractNote={<p>This paper examines the rhetoric of post-colonial mentality, mindset and attitude in Jean Rhys’s novel<em> Wide Sargasso Sea</em> and looks at how the writer is not aloof from the colonial mindset. Drawing on insights and postulations from Gayatri Spivak’s post-colonialism and Lee Erwin’s new-historicism, this article analyzes the imperial discourse in the novel. Although the writer shows her narrator being close to black people as a Creole woman, the writer’s closeness to the imperial mindset is evident throughout the novel. This paper concludes that by creating a certain distance from the ex-slaves, the writer is not able to fully liberate herself from her imperial mindset. Although the writer tries to affiliate herself with the ex-slaves, she however remains within her own culture, that is, culture of Creole.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Contemporary Research: An Interdisciplinary Academic Journal}, author={Niroula, Rajiv}, year={2021}, month={Oct.}, pages={124–131} }