Examining the postcolonial retellings in Wide Sargasso Sea : Its connections to Jane Eyre and its intellectual linkages to feminist-postcolonial scholarship/thinking. With Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), Jean Rhys presents a postcolonial response to Charlotte Brontë’s critically acclaimed work, Jane Eyre (1847). This prequel decentralises Jane's narrative as an empowering female heroine and focuses instead on the woman who has been unjustly remembered (or perhaps forgotten) as ‘Ber