Wandering Bodies: The Disruption of Identities in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy and Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones
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description: This thesis examines the relationship between migration and identity in two Caribbean novels, Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy and Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones. Through these female characters, I analyze the process of migration as a disruptive force that complicates Lucy’s and Amabelle’s various identities. The issues they face because of their transition inspires a process of self-discovery. As a result, they choose to reside in spaces of emptiness, allowing them to have no identity placement at the end of their journeys. The ideal solution would be to join their new and old identities together in order to create their individuality. However, they fail in taking that route and instead the authors perform this hybridization of cultures through both novels and in return exemplify what it means to have a Caribbean identity.
abstract: This thesis examines the relationship between migration and identity in two Caribbean novels, Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy and Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones. Through these female characters, I analyze the process of migration as a disruptive force that complicates Lucy’s and Amabelle’s various identities. The issues they face because of their transition inspires a process of self-discovery. As a result, they choose to reside in spaces of emptiness, allowing them to have no identity placement at the end of their journeys. The ideal solution would be to join their new and old identities together in order to create their individuality. However, they fail in taking that route and instead the authors perform this hybridization of cultures through both novels and in return exemplify what it means to have a Caribbean identity.
author: Martin, Janelle
language: en
keywords: Caribbean
date published: 2015
date modified: 2026-07-27T22:01:52Z
provider: Wake Forest University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Wake Forest University

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value: http://hdl.handle.net/10339/57135