声明
摘要
Abstract
Contents
Introduction
Chapter One Literary Canon as a Way of Maintaining Imperial Power
1.1 Literature and Cultural Hegemony
1.2 Said’s View on Power and Literature
1.3 Jane Eyre at Imperial Centre
1.3.1 Jane Eyre’s Success and Imperialism
1.3.2 St.John’s Missionary Work and Imperialism
Chapter Two Wide Sargasso Sea:Resisting the Dominant Discourse of Jane Eyre
2.1 The Restoration of the Life of “Bertha Mason” as “Antoinette Cosway”
2.2 The Rewriting of the Bertha Mason “Plot” in Jane Eyre
2.3 A Truthful Relation of the West Indian Environment
2.4 The Intertextual Devices of Wide Sargasso Sea
Chapter Three Representing the Colonized and the Colonizer Both as Victims:a Way to Resist Cultural Hegemony
3.1 Antoinette’s Dilemma as a White Creole
3.1.1 Antoinette’s Attachment to the Caribbean World and Black Culture
3.1.2 Antoinette’s Longing for the English World
3.2 Rochester’s Predicament as an English Man
3.2.1 A Spokesman for Colonialism
3.2.2 A Victim of the Patriarchal Society
Conclusion
Bibliography
Acknowledgements