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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Jamaica Kincaid"”.
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O feminismo pós-colonialista de Jamaica Kincaid: rumo à liberdade
… são desenvolvidas na obra da escritora caribenha Jamaica Kincaid. Entramos em contato com personagens (Annie, Lucy e Xuela) que se encontram num processo contínuo de aprendizagem em relação ao mundo, o entendimento desse processo passa pelo aprofundamento da relação mãe-filha/nação-indivíduo. Para …
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Placing the Body: A Study of Postcolonialism and Environment in the Works of Jamaica Kincaid
This project examines the work of Jamaica Kincaid for iterations of the body, specifically how Postcolonial and Ecocritical theories may inform those representations. I will look at the narrators of Annie John, Lucy, and The Autobiography of My Mother for examples of embodiment, negotiations and …
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Complexities of the Underrecognized: Conceptualizing Erasure and Exposure in Queer Caribbean Narratives
… inequality. This thesis will read the works of Jamaica Kincaid, Rita Indiana, Marlon James, Bernardine Evaristo and Francesca Ekwuyasi – whose stories have captivated the lives of the underrecognized and reveals how queer narratives are shifting as Caribbean society progresses and assist in …
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Decolonising the body in Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark and Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy
… and Lucy by the Antiguan-American writer Jamaica Kincaid, published in 1990. Both novels tell the stories of young women from the Caribbean who leave their islands to work in Western metropolises (London and New York, respectively). Both young women reject colonial categories such as race …
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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
… external bodily changes. Edwidge Danticat and Jamaica Kincaid employ the first-person narrative style in their respective debut 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 …
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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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Self-Reclamation through Death: Attaining Creoleness in Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother and In Praise of Creoleness by Jean Bernabé, Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphaël Confiant
… be seen as the manifesto of creolization, while Kincaid’s Xuela in The Autobiography of My Mother is the manifestation. Kincaid’s work presents an account of an individual’s spiritual and intellectual journey towards self-reclamation, while the essay’s ambition is to present this process in a …