Caribbean Genesis
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Caribbean Genesis

Jamaica Kincaid and the Writing of New Worlds

  1. 249 pages
  2. English
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Caribbean Genesis

Jamaica Kincaid and the Writing of New Worlds

About this book

Philosophical exploration of Jamaica Kincaid's entire literary oeuvre.

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.

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Information

Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780791476543
9780791476536
eBook ISBN
9780791477236
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Latin American & Caribbean Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. CARIBBEAN GENESIS
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction: Caribbean Genesis, Alterbiography,and the Writing of New Worlds
  5. 1. Alterrains of “Blackness” in At the Bottom of the River
  6. 2. Jablesse, Obeah, and Caribbean Cosmogonies in At the Bottom of the River
  7. 3. The Diabolic as Diasporic in Annie John and Lucy
  8. 4. Genre, Genealogy, and Genocide in The Autobiography of My Mother
  9. 5. Death and the Biographical Autograph in My Brother
  10. 6. Genre, Genealogy, and Genesis in Mr. Potter
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index

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