This paper explores the relation between the uncanny and Empire literature.It examines how manifestations of the uncanny can be used in colonial and postcolonial contexts.In order to do that, the paper examines how Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847), a colonial novel, and Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), a postcolonial rewriting of Brontë's text, employ the uncanny to promote or subvert colo...