Jamaica Kincaid: Where the Land Meets the BodyUniversity of Virginia Press, 1994 - 206 páginas As a writer who has been quoted as saying she writes to save her life- that is she couldn't write, she would be a revolutionary- Antiguan novelist Jamaica Kincaid translates this passion into searing, exhilarating prose. Her weaving of history, autobiography, fiction, and polemic has won her a large readership. In this first book-length study of her work, Moira Ferguson examines all of Kincaid's writing up to 1992, focusing especially o their entwinement of personal and political identity. In doing so, she draws a parallel between the dynamics of the mother-daughter relationship in Kincaid's fiction and the more political relationship of the colonizer and the colonized. Ferguson calls this effect the "doubled mother"- a conception of motherhood as both colonial and biological. |
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Caribbean Shadows & Victorian Ghosts: Women's Writing and Decolonization Kathleen J. Renk Sin vista previa disponible - 1999 |
The Contemporary American Short-Story Cycle: The Ethnic Resonance of Genre James Nagel Vista previa limitada - 2004 |