Changing Ways
Jean Rhys wrote Wide Sargasso Sea between 1945 and 1966. Critic Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell writes in "The Paradoxes of Belonging: The White West Indian Women In Fiction", that "the novel is a response to the nationalistic mood in the West Indies of the late 1950's and 1960's"(35). Rhys shows in an uneasy time when racial relations in the Caribbean were at their most strained, it represented a space occupied by so many empires and so many people in contention with one another which characterized the region as "One grand theater of recurring warfare, declared and undeclared"…
