Caribbean Genesis: Jamaica Kincaid and the Writing of New Worlds

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State University of New York Press, 5 січ. 2009 р. - 245 стор.
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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Caribbean Genesis Alterbiographyand the Writing of New Worlds
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1 Alterrains of Blackness in At the Bottom of the River
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2 Jablesse Obeah and Caribbean Cosmogonies in At the Bottom of the River
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3 The Diabolic as Diasporic in Annie John and Lucy
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4 Genre Genealogy and Genocide in The Autobiography of My Mother
101
5 Death and the Biographical Autograph in My Brother
129
6 Genre Genealogy and Genesis in Mr Potter
175
Notes
197
Bibliography
207
Index
233
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Jana Evans Braziel is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati and author of Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora.

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