'Is it true,' she said, 'that England is like a dream? Because one of my friends who married an Englishman wrote and told me so. She said this place London is like a cold dark dream sometimes. I want to wake up.' 'Well,' I answered annoyed, 'that is precisely how your beautiful island seems to me, quite unreal and like a dream.' 'But how can rivers and mountains and the sea be unreal?' 'And how can millions of people, their houses and their streets be unreal?' 'More easily,' she said, 'much more easily. Yes a big city must be like a dream.' Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea is considered to be one of the most important postmodern feminist texts. It is a classic example of a postcolonial text 'writing back' to its colonial counterpart. In this case that counterpart is Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre . I remember being puzzled by the existence of the madwoman in the attic when I first saw Jane Eyre as a ...