Includes bibliographical references (p. 177) and index.
Contents:
Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Jamaica Kincaid and the resistance to canons / Giovanna Covi -- Family connections : Mother and mother country in the fiction of Jean Rhys and Jamaica Kincaid / Laura Niesen de Abruna -- She ties her tongue : the problems of cultural paralysis in postcolonial criticism / Alison Donnell -- Lucy and the mark of the colonizer / Moira Ferguson -- Jamaica Kincaid: "First they must be children" / Patricia Ismond -- Compared to what? Global feminism, comparatism and the master's tools / Susan Sniader Lanser -- Severing the (M)Other connection : the representation of cultural identity in Jamaia Kincaid's Annie John / H. Adlai Murdoch -- Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy : cultural "translation" as a case of creative exploration of the past / Edyta Oczkowicz -- Initiation in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John / Donna Perry -- Cold hearts and (foreign) tongues : recitation and the reclamation of the female body in the works of Erna Brodber and Jamaica Kincaid / Helen Tiffin -- Adolescent rebellion and gender relations in At the bottom of the river and Annie John / Helen Pyne Timothy.
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