مجلة إشكالات في اللغة و الأدب
Volume 15, Numéro 3, Pages 484-502
2026-09-02
Memories Of Self: Sensory Epistemology, Caribbean Landscape And Cultural Identity In Wide Sargasso Sea
Authors : Abbaci Warda . Benlahcene Mallek .
Abstract
Within the complex context of Caribbean cultural identity, the present article examines how Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea (1982) employs sensory epistemology to develop Caribbean consciousness. Rhys depicts the body as a locus of knowledge through vivid depictions of the island's lush landscapes, which include the vibrant colors, humid scents, and resonant sounds. Sensory experiences either bridge or disrupt the Creole protagonist Antoinette's hybrid identity. Drawing on postcolonial theories of memory (Glissant), third space (Soja), and the theory of smell (Classen) and through textual analysis, this article reveals how sensory experience structures Antoinette’s subjectivity and establishes her problematic relationship to place, race, and memory. It further explores the unnamed husband’s narrative as a site of colonial anxiety and epistemic violence. Ultimately, the paper argues that Rhys’s sensory poetics contends landscape and memory as fraught contexts where colonial authority is both replicated and rejected, thereby contributing to deeper debates on identity development in postcolonial Caribbean literature.
Keywords
postcolonial Literature, memory identity, landscape, sensory epistemology, Wide Sargasso Sea
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