Caribbean literature maintains a dual relationship with the culture of the former colonizers, hesitating between resistance and imitation, deterritorialization and reterritorialization, alienation and reinvention. Jamaica Kincaid’s connection with her literary and historical heritage is a dynamic one. Her writing is postcolonial in the political more than the historical sense. Like Kincaid herself, the characters explore the boundaries between filiation and affiliation, adopting strategies of reappropriation to respond to their alienation in their relationships with their mothers. Their reclaiming of their bodies leads to self-reinvention, and to the reappropriation of history and space. Kincaid herself searches for an artistic space in whi...
This essay examines Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy, a novel that tackles the process of decolonization from ...
The Caribbean is characterized by a certain divided, or hybrid, identity created by the colonial sit...
This paper will focus on a selection of texts by postcolonial women writers, including Jean Rhys, Ja...
International audienceExile and colonialism play an essential part in Jamaica Kincaid's novels. This...
Jamaica Kincaid's novel Lucy (1990) is a coming-of-age story, or a Künstlerroman to be more spe...
Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy and A Small PlaceThe present dissertation anlyzes the use of literature as a ...
Caribbean literature exposes a history of dispossession, exploitation and oppression which has been ...
Abstract: Jamaica Kincaid, arguably the most popular Caribbean woman writer living in the USA, has p...
NOTE: This doctoral thesis is also published on book. It will be avalaible on the Peter Lang Press b...
This paper raises the crucial question as to whether non-Western feminisms have reached a postcoloni...
After the forceful displacement of people during the trans-Atlantic slave trade came another wave of...
This essay investigates Jamaica Kincaid´s the book Annie John (1985) and its protagonist Annie John´...
Caribbean novelist Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy is an emblematic sample of the so-called post-colonial and...
Jamaica Kincaid, arguably the most popular Caribbean woman writer living in the USA, has produced m...
Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy: A Novel, an autobiographical narrative as opposed to what the title suggests...
This essay examines Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy, a novel that tackles the process of decolonization from ...
The Caribbean is characterized by a certain divided, or hybrid, identity created by the colonial sit...
This paper will focus on a selection of texts by postcolonial women writers, including Jean Rhys, Ja...
International audienceExile and colonialism play an essential part in Jamaica Kincaid's novels. This...
Jamaica Kincaid's novel Lucy (1990) is a coming-of-age story, or a Künstlerroman to be more spe...
Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy and A Small PlaceThe present dissertation anlyzes the use of literature as a ...
Caribbean literature exposes a history of dispossession, exploitation and oppression which has been ...
Abstract: Jamaica Kincaid, arguably the most popular Caribbean woman writer living in the USA, has p...
NOTE: This doctoral thesis is also published on book. It will be avalaible on the Peter Lang Press b...
This paper raises the crucial question as to whether non-Western feminisms have reached a postcoloni...
After the forceful displacement of people during the trans-Atlantic slave trade came another wave of...
This essay investigates Jamaica Kincaid´s the book Annie John (1985) and its protagonist Annie John´...
Caribbean novelist Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy is an emblematic sample of the so-called post-colonial and...
Jamaica Kincaid, arguably the most popular Caribbean woman writer living in the USA, has produced m...
Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy: A Novel, an autobiographical narrative as opposed to what the title suggests...
This essay examines Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy, a novel that tackles the process of decolonization from ...
The Caribbean is characterized by a certain divided, or hybrid, identity created by the colonial sit...
This paper will focus on a selection of texts by postcolonial women writers, including Jean Rhys, Ja...