Caribbean Genesis: Jamaica Kincaid and the Writing of New WorldsState University of New York Press, 2009 M01 5 - 245 páginas By exploring the breadth of Jamaica Kincaid's writings, this book reveals her work's transmutations of genre, specifically those of autobiography, biography, and history in relation to the forces of creation and destruction in the Caribbean. Jana Evans Braziel examines Kincaid's preoccupation with genealogy, genesis, and genocide in the Caribbean; her adaptations of biblical texts for her literary oeuvre; and her authorial deployments of the diabolic as frames for both rethinking the boundaries of genre and altering notions of subjectivity, objectivity, self, and other. |
Contenido
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1 Alterrains of Blackness in At the Bottom of the River | 21 |
2 Jablesse Obeah and Caribbean Cosmogonies in At the Bottom of the River | 53 |
3 The Diabolic as Diasporic in Annie John and Lucy | 79 |
4 Genre Genealogy and Genocide in The Autobiography of My Mother | 101 |
5 Death and the Biographical Autograph in My Brother | 129 |
6 Genre Genealogy and Genesis in Mr Potter | 175 |
Notes | 197 |
Bibliography | 207 |
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Caribbean Genesis: Jamaica Kincaid and the Writing of New Worlds Jana Evans Braziel Sin vista previa disponible - 2010 |
Caribbean Genesis: Jamaica Kincaid and the Writing of New Worlds Jana Evans Braziel Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
Términos y frases comunes
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