... it's own history, a story of it's past, and the past of everything that surrounds it. In the postcolonial novel Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys, the Caribbean landscape is used as an agent to be interpreted by two different characters, Antoinette and Rochester, in this prequel. Each of them will ... utilises nature as if she has lived there all her life, making cups out of leafs. Therefore, Rochester does not feel comfortable in the Caribbean, because everything is so unreal to him, whereas Antoinette gives us the impression that this is all she ever wanted, and understands her surroun...

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... phase of the Middle Passage. It includes a vast number of aspects and elements: the slave ship, the sense of community, the function of the sea, the horrible treatment and condition of life in the slave ship, moral and physical suffering, darkness and the violence towards the women slaves. "Voyage ... From that moment a lot of writings were published, such as The Pleasures of Exile written by George Lamming 1960 and The Middle Passage: The Caribbean Revisited (1962) and The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy by Kamau Brathwaite in 1973. We can distinguish Hayden's and Brathwaite's work in tw...

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... . > > > Slavery started in the early1600's when the Europeans and Americans sailed overseas to Africa to capture the slaves to have them transported to the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Caribbean and to the United States as well. On the vessel traveling back to the United States was a nightmare for the slaves, they had the men (young & old) changed to the ... women and children would most likely be at another section of the boat scared and wondering in their minds why is this happening to them. Few weeks traveling through the sea was over, then came the arrival for the Africans ...

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... macrocosm: God is not a sole existence but a prevalent force. This occurrence is especially evident in the enchanted way that Hurston characterizes nature. At many different times, the sun, moon, sky, sea, horizon, and other demeanor of the natural world appear addicted with sanctity. The "God- in the title pertains to these unearthly forces throughout the globe, both magical and frightful, that ... inner self is always present, as the novel espouses a worldview rooted in folklore and mythology. As an anthropologist, Hurston collected rural mythology and folklore of blacks in America an...

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