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Maternal Shadows and Colonial Ghosts in Jamaica Kincaid's <em>Annie John</em>.
<p>Although Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John can be described as a bildungsroman or coming of age story, the novel raises complex and compelling issues. Both Annie John’s mother and the colonial school undermine her transition into adulthood by teaching Annie to devalue her individual identity and …
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The Adolescent Grotesque: Transgressing Boundaries of Female Sexuality in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory and Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John
… novels, <em>Breath, Eyes, Memory </em>and <em>Annie John</em>, to amplify the female adolescent voice and provide unmitigated access to the female adolescent experience. During adolescence, the female body is in sexual flux – steadily losing its amorphousness as puberty runs its course. The …
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O feminismo pós-colonialista de Jamaica Kincaid: rumo à liberdade
… trabalho tem por finalidade analisar os romances Annie John (1985), Lucy (1990) e The Autobiography of My Mother (1996); a fim de compreender as representações femininas e pós-coloniais que são desenvolvidas na obra da escritora caribenha Jamaica Kincaid. Entramos em contato com personagens …
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Placing the Body: A Study of Postcolonialism and Environment in the Works of Jamaica Kincaid
… representations. I will look at the narrators of Annie John, Lucy, and The Autobiography of My Mother for examples of embodiment, negotiations and hierarchy of place, and the different spheres of environment that each narrator must engage with. Though both terms, postcolonial and ecocritical, have …
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Never Lost, Never Found: A Psychoanalytic Study of Representations of the Child in Literature
… of childhood and loss examined in the novels Annie John, Never Let Me Go and Frankenstein reflect the adults disoriented relationship with the past and the interminable problem of the relations between adult and child. Four central themes emerge from the conversation with the selected literary …
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Mira Muchacha: The Latinx Bildungsroman in Elizabeth Acevedo’s The Poet X
… and Mother-Daughter Bonding in Jamaica Kinclad’s Annie John” (126). Recognized as the first work in the Bildungsroman genre, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship (1796) tracks the development and education of the protagonist from boyhood to manhood. In 20th and 21st …