Caribbean genesis : Jamaica Kincaid and the writing of new worlds /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, [2009] |
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 237 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-231) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780791476536 0791476537 |
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