Desktop versionMobile version

Aliénation et réinvention dans l’œuvre de Jamaica Kincaid

Caribbean literature maintains a dual relationship with the culture of the former colonizers, hesitating between resistance and imitation, deterritorialization and reterritorialization, alienation and reinvention. Jamaica Kincaid’s connection with her literary and historical heritage is a dynamic one. Her writing is postcolonial in the political more than the historical sense. Like Kincaid herself, the characters explore the boundaries between filiation and affiliation, adopting strategies...


Read more
  • Publisher : Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
  • Series : Horizons anglophones
  • Place of publication : Montpellier
  • Year of publication : 2014
  • Published on OpenEdition Books : 25 mars 2022
  • EAN (Print version) : 978-2-36781-113-0
  • Electronic EAN : 978-2-36781-384-4
  • DOI : 10.4000/books.pulm.8503
  • Number of pages : 334 p.

The text and other elements (illustrations, imported files) may be used under OpenEdition Books License, unless otherwise stated.

Mots clés

Publisher's selections

OpenEdition Books

Disciplines

History

Subjects

History, America
Search OpenEdition Search

You will be redirected to OpenEdition Search