• Navdeep Kaur

The paper attempts to depict the trials and travails of the colonized and marginalized protagonist of critically acclaimed novel Wide Sargasso Sea which is a prequel written by Jean Rhys to fill the gaps in Jane Eyre written by famous Victorian novelist Charlotte Bronte. The novelist Jean Rhys has given a voice to Antoinette Cosway, a woman who was named Bertha in Jane Eyre and was deprived of her true identity. The paper seeks to explain the deep-rooted cultural alienation, identity crisis and trauma faced by the protagonist and her attempt to reclaim her lost voice, identity and dignity as narrator of Wide Sargasso Sea through postcolonial lens. The concepts of double subjugation of the subaltern women, Othering, cultural displacement etc. used in postcolonial discourse by the theorists provide ample scope to analyse the politics of colonial powers and its ramifications in the life of doubly oppressed protagonist and the endeavor of Jean Rhys to write back to the classic English text.

Rhys, Antoinette, Bertha, Identity, Creole, Other, postcolonial.

" Loss of Cultural Identity of Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre and its Reclamation in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea: A Postcolonial Study ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 1, page no.423-430, January-2017, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701A57.pdf

" Loss of Cultural Identity of Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre and its Reclamation in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea: A Postcolonial Study ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.4, Issue 1, page no. pp423-430, January-2017, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701A57.pdf