What does the title "Wide Sargasso Sea" mean?

Question: What does the title "Wide Sargasso Sea" mean!?

I just finished reading the book "Wide Sargasso Sea" but I don't know what the title means!. This happens to be a problem because I have to write a three page essay about it!. Could someone enlighten me!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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The Sargasso Sea is a region in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean!. It is known for being so salty that almost no sea life exists there, excepting a few species of seaweed and eel!. It has rather a sinister reputation in folklore!. It contains the Bermuda Triangle, and many other strange disappearances have occurred there!. Due to air and ocean currents, there is almost no wind over the sea, and many ships have been becalmed there!. Some are said to be trapped in the sargassum, the seaweed that grows so abundantly there!. There are strange ocean currents there!.

The Wide Sargasso Sea refers, on one level, to the sea itself, which seperates England and the Carribbean, Antoinette from her homeland and Rochester from his!. The mystery of the place feeds into the gothic feel of the novel, and the barrenness of the sea is a metaphor for Antoinette's "inner death!."Www@QuestionHome@Com

As I remember, it is where she is, where she comes from, and has to cross to Rochester's culture!.

Represents vast differences in culture

water and fire imagery in bookWww@QuestionHome@Com

a lot of waterWww@QuestionHome@Com