Cutting through the Underbrush of Life: Carnival, Sex and Machetes in Jean Rhys\' Wide Sargasso Sea by Joseph Jaworski

Cutting through the Underbrush of Life: Carnival, Sex and Machetes in Jean Rhys\' Wide Sargasso Sea

Joseph Jaworski

5 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

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This critical essay explores how the machete, as a Caribbean symbol, is used by the underdogs of society to carnavalize against the white upper-class. Jaworski provides close readings that explicates how Rhys integrates machete symbolism in "Wide ...

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