Other Ways of Looking: The Female Gaze in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea.

dc.creator	Nalini Paul
dc.date	2004
dc.date.accessioned	2013-05-29T20:50:14Z
dc.date.available	2013-05-29T20:50:14Z
dc.date.issued	2013-05-30
dc.identifier	http://www.sharp.arts.gla.ac.uk/issue2/paul.htm
dc.identifier	http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&genre=article&issn=17424542&date=2004&volume=Two&issue=&spage=
dc.identifier.uri	http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/jspui/handle/123456789/1866
dc.description	The concept of the gaze has been a central focus of film theory since Laura Mulvey's seminal essay, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", published in 1975. Although the term "gaze" also exists in postcolonial theory, there is a wealth of information on the male gaze in cinema, in comparison with very little having been written on the subject in terms of literary texts. The phenomenon of gazing in literature strikes relevant parallels with gazing in film theory, as well as with postcolonial theory. This paper will therefore examine the gaze as an objectifying force in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), by drawing upon feminist film theory as it has developed since "Visual Pleasure". Homi Bhabha's theory of the displaced colonial "I" or "eye" will also be utilised, as well as bell hooks' theory of the "oppositional gaze" in Black Looks.
dc.publisher	University of Glasgow
dc.source	eSharp
dc.title	Other Ways of Looking: The Female Gaze in Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea.

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