Author(s)

Lin Liu

Corresponding Author

Lin Liu

Abstract

Most criticisms about Jean Rhys's masterpiece, Wide Sargasso Sea, focus on its relationship with Jean Eyre, or on feminism psychoanalysis and post-colonialism. This paper tries to analyze its fiction through trauma theory with concern about Jean Rhys's special Creole origin, in order to demonstrate that the fiction is a process of Antoinette's trauma and recovery, through which Jean Rhys shows her concern for the common identity crisis of Creole people under a certain historical background.

Keywords

Identity Crisis, Creole, Trauma, Recovery.