Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-216) and index.
Contents:
A small place : glossing Annie John's rebellion -- Caribbean writers and Caribbean language : a study of Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John -- Authorizing the slut in Jamaica Kincaid's At the bottom of the river -- Jamaica Kincaid's writing and the maternal-colonial matrix -- Under English, obeah English : Jamaica Kincaid's new language -- The daffodil gap : Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy -- Death and the diaspora writer : hybridity and mourning in the work of Jamaica Kincaid -- Imaginary homelands in Jamaica Kincaid's narratives of development -- In the beginning there was death : spiritual desolation and the search for self in Jamaica Kincaid's Autobiography of my mother -- "Like him and his own father before him, I have a line drawn through me" : imagining the life of the absent father in Mr. Potter -- Escaping the colonizer's whip : the binary discipline -- "What if he did not have a sister [who lived in the United States]?" : Jamaica Kincaid's My brother as remittance text.
Summary:
Essays discuss the themes and techniques used by the Caribbean author in her major works.
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