Caribbean genesis
Subtitle: Jamaica Kincaid and the writing of new worlds
By: Jana Evans Braziel.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9780791476536
Subjects: Kincaid, Jamaica -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : "A broken plate ..." : Caribbean genesis, alterbiography, and the writing of new worlds; title: "Darkness was over the surface of the deep" : alterrains of "blackness" in At the bottom of the river (1983); title: "In the night" : jablesse, obeah, and Caribbean cosmogonies in At the bottom of the river (1983); title: "Rooting for the Devil : the diabolic as diasporic in Annie John (1985) and Lucy (1990); title: Damning history : genre, genealogy, and genocide in The autobiography of my mother (1996); title: Fallen angels: death and the biographical Autograph in my brother (1997); title: "Another line was born ..." : genre, genealogy and genesis in Mr. Potter (2002).