Caribbean Genesis : Jamaica Kincaid and the Writing of New Worlds
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| Title: | Caribbean Genesis : Jamaica Kincaid and the Writing of New Worlds |
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| Description: | Philosophical exploration of Jamaica Kincaid's entire literary oeuvre.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. |
| Authors: | Jana Evans Braziel |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | English literature |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / Caribbean & Latin American, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black |
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