Caribbean genesis : Jamaica Kincaid and the writing of new worlds / Jana Evans Braziel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Braziel, Jana Evans, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature.

Kincaid, Jamaica--Criticism and interpretation.

Kincaid, Jamaica.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction: Caribbean genesis, alterbiography, and the writing of new worlds

Alterrains of "blackness" in At the bottom of the river

Jablesse, obeah, and Caribbean cosmogonies in At the bottom of the river

The diabolic as diasporic in Annie John and Lucy

Genre, genealogy, and genocide in The autobiography of my mother

Death and the biographical autograph in My brother

Genre, genealogy, and genesis in Mr. Potter.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-231) and index.

ISBN:

9780791477236

0791477231

9781441603623

144160362X

OCLC:

317416166