Caribbean Genesis: Jamaica Kincaid and the Writing of New Worlds

by Jana Evans Braziel

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780791477236
Publisher:	State University of New York Press
Publication date:	01/05/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	245
File size:	485 KB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Caribbean Genesis, Alterbiography, and the Writing of New Worlds

1. Alterrainsof "Blackness" in At the Bottom of the River
2. Jablesse, Obeah, and Caribbean Cosmogonies in At the Bottom of the River

3. The Diabolic as Diasporic in Annie John and Lucy

4. Genre, Genealogy, and Genocide in The Autobiography of My Mother

5. Death and the Biographical Autograph in My Brother

6. Genre, Genealogy, and Genesis in Mr. Potter

Notes
Bibliography
Index