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Abstract :
[en] Jean Rhys and Caryl Phillips are diasporic writers from the Caribbean who have openly connected their work with that of the canonical Brontë sisters. While Rhys is famous for writing back to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre in Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), Phillips has more recently responded to Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights in The Lost Child (2015). Dramatising the tragic encounter between the Caribbean and its Northern English others, these four novels deal with questions of marginalization and exclusion, and from that perspective devote much space to mental derangement which, interestingly, is not only associated in these works with the colonial subjects, as the traditional prejudice goes, but also with their English counterparts. This paper will examine this reversal in the context of cultural decolonization.
