The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the related themes of alienation and spirit-thievery in two Caribbean novels: Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys, and Myal: a novel, by Erna Brodber. My argument is that both authors adopt a post-colonial perspective in terms of language and form, by intentionally distancing their texts from the typical conventions of the realistic English novel of the nineteenth century, as exemplified by Jane Eyre. In the first chapter, I analyze Antoinette’s narrative voice, and argue that Rhys chose polyphony and liminality to respond to the silencing and misrepresentation of the white Creole in Brontë’s text. In the next chapter, I focus on the character of Ella in Brodber’s text, and identify the use of the Jamaican Creole Continuum, and Myalism as key elements in the process of dezombification that allows the protagonist to come to terms with her multiethnic origins. In the last chapter, I claim that both novels juxtapose institutional and cultural sources of spirit-thievery with individual ones, such as Obeah, to denounce the deleterious effects of colonialism. Yet, while both texts are counter-discourses to British imperialism, Myal is clearly also an act of cultural reappropriation. Indeed, Brodber succeeds in celebrating Afro-Creole culture through the genuine representation of Creole language and religion as a continuum in her novel. Finally, I argue that the two authors have chosen opposite narrative strategies for the portrayal of their respective English characters, and that the latter’s representations impact the outcome, and overall interpretation of their works.