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Caribbean genesis : Jamaica Kincaid and the writing of new worlds / Jana Evans Braziel.
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- ISBN: 0791476537 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780791476536 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780791476543
- Physical Description: viii, 237 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, c2009.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-231) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Subject: | Kincaid, Jamaica > Criticism and interpretation. |
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Caribbean Genesis : Jamaica Kincaid and the Writing of New Worlds
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.
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