Source Material
"Since the Voyages of European conquest, European hegemony in the Americas has been
practically structured and symbolically cast in terms of the European patriarchal family.
Black human beings were bought and sold; women were legally at the economic mercy of
their male relatives, and Native Americans (Amerindians) - when not exterminated- were
violently subjugated. Indigenous Americans, Black slave, women, colonial, and children were
considered by the colonizer, to differing degrees, to be, by nature dependent and inferior.
The relationship of all these groups to the colonizer is at stake in Wide Sargasso Sea," (Drake
194).
Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea, edited by Judith L. Raiskin, W.W. Norton and Company, New
York, 1999.
Potential Use
When discussing the themes at work in Jean Rhys's novel Wide Sargasso Sea, it would be
remiss to leave out the overarching presence of the colonizer versus the colonized. Since the
Voyages of European conquest, European hegemony in the Americas has been practically
structured and symbolically cast in terms of the European patriarchal family. Black human
beings were bought and sold; women were legally at the economic mercy of their male
relatives, and Native Americans (Amerindians) - when not exterminated- were violently
subjugated. Indigenous Americans, Black slave, women, colonial, and children were
considered by the colonizer, to differing degrees, to be, by nature dependent and inferior.
The relationship of all these groups to the colonizer is at stake in Wide Sargasso Sea.

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