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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.

English literature. --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Kincaid, Jamaica --- Richardson, Elaine Potter --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Focusing on specific texts by Jamaica Kincaid, Maryse Condé, and Paule Marshall, this fascinating study explores the intricate trichotomous relationship between the mother (biological or surrogate), the motherlands Africa and the Caribbean, and the mothercountry represented by England, France, and/or North America. The mother-daughter relationships in the works discussed address the complex, conflicting notions of motherhood that exist within this trichotomy. Although mothering is usually socialized as a welcoming, nurturing notion, Alexander argues that alongside this nurturing notion there exists much conflict. Specifically, she argues that the mother-daughter relationship, plagued with ambivalence, is often further conflicted by colonialism or colonial intervention from the "other," the colonial mothercountry. Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women offers an overview of Caribbean women's writings from the 1990s, focusing on the personal relationships these three authors have had with their mothers and/or motherlands to highlight links, despite social, cultural, geographical, and political differences, among Afro-Caribbean women and their writings. Alexander traces acts of resistance, which facilitate the (re)writing/righting of the literary canon and the conception of a "newly created genre" and a "womanist" tradition through fictional narratives with autobiographical components. Exploring the complex and ambiguous mother-daughter relationship, she examines the connection between the mother and the mother's land. In addition, Alexander addresses the ways in which the absence of a mother can send an individual on a desperate quest for selfhood and a home space. This quest forces and forges the creation of an imagined homeland and the re-validation of "old ways and cultures" preserved by the mother. Creating such an imagined homeland enables the individual to acquire "wholeness," which permits a spiritual return to the motherland, Africa via the Caribbean. This spiritual return or homecoming, through the living and practicing of the old culture, makes possible the acceptance and celebration of the mother's land. Alexander concludes that the mothers created by these authors are the source of diasporic connections and continuities. Writing/righting black women's histories as Kincaid, Condé, and Marshall have done provides a clearing, a space, a mother's land, for black women. Mother Imagery in the Novels of Afro-Caribbean Women will be of great interest to all teachers and students of women's studies, African American studies, Caribbean literature, and diasporic literatures.

Caribbean fiction (English) --- Women and literature --- American fiction --- African American women in literature. --- Mothers and daughters in literature. --- Motherhood in literature. --- Mothers in literature. --- Home in literature. --- Afro-American women in literature --- Literature --- Caribbean literature (English) --- English fiction --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- African American authors --- Marshall, Paule, --- Kincaid, Jamaica --- Condé, Maryse --- Condé, M. --- Richardson, Elaine Potter --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Marshall, Paule (1929-....) --- Kincaid, Jamaica (1949-....) --- Condé, Maryse (1937-....) --- Femmes et littérature --- Roman antillais de langue anglaise --- Mères --- Maternité --- Mères et filles --- Critique et interprétation --- Antilles --- 20e siècle --- Femmes écrivains --- Histoire et critique --- États-Unis --- Dans la littérature --- Thèmes, motifs --- Région caraïbe --- Conde, Maryse

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In UNTHINKING MASTERY Julietta Singh demonstrates how pervasive the concept of mastery has been to modern politics, even to anti-colonial thought, which rejects forms of political domination and subjection. Anti-colonial discourse, Singh argues, has sought to recuperate the humanity of the colonized in ways that remain bound to masterful formulations of subjectivity. Drawing on postcolonial theory, queer theory, new materialism, and animal studies, Singh analyzes critiques of mastery across anti-colonial discourse to explore how modern formulations of decolonization that were explicitly pitched against colonial mastery continuously rehearse other forms of mastery in order to exceed it. Singh's goal isn't to discipline important figures from anti-colonial politics or the contemporary intellectual left, but rather to take seriously the messiness of our political strategies in the hope of deriving un-masterful styles of being.

Postcolonialism in literature. --- Power (Social sciences) in literature. --- Coetzee, J. M., --- Mahāśvetā Debī, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Sinha, Indra --- Kincaid, Jamaica --- Devi, Sumitra, --- Sumitra Devi, --- Bhaṭṭacārya, Mahāśvetā, --- Debī, Mahāśvetā, --- Ghaṭak, Mahāśvetā, --- Bhattacharya, Mahashveta, --- Mahāśvetā Devī, --- Devī, Mahāśvetā, --- Devi, Mahasweta, --- Mahasweta Devi, --- Makācuvētā Tēvi, --- Tēvi, Makācuvētā, --- Coetzee, John M., --- Кутзее, Дж. М., --- Kutzee, Dzh. M., --- קוטזי, ג׳. מ., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл, --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell, --- Richardson, Elaine Potter --- Indra Sinha --- Mahāśvetā Debī, --- Kincaid, Jamaica. --- Sinha, Indra. --- Coetzee, John Maxwell M. --- Coetzee, J. M. --- Coetzee, J.M. --- Coetzee, John M. --- Кутзее, Дж. М. --- Kutzee, Dzh. M. --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell --- Literature --- Anti-imperialism --- Decolonization --- Frantz Fanon --- Mahatma Gandhi --- Postcolonialism --- Subjectivity

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What kinds of uncertainties and desires do generic issues evoke? How can we account for the continuing hold of the Bildungsroman as a model of analysis? Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Reading Contemporary Ethnic American Women's Fiction combines genre and cultural theory and offers a cross-ethnic comparative approach to the tradition of the female novel of development and the American coming-of-age narrative. Examining closely the work of Jamaica Kincaid, Sandra Cisneros, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Audre Lorde, the chapters foreground processes of constructing an alternative "art of living" which challenges the Bildungsroman's drive for either assimilation or ethnic homogeneity and pushes for new configurations of ethnic and American female identity. Drawing on feminist/gender studies, psychoanalytic theory, translation theory, queer theory, and disability studies, the book provides a theoretically engaged rethinking of the Bildungsroman's form and function. Addressing questions of aesthetics and politics, freedom and belonging, betrayal and responsibility, and tracing the Bildungsroman's links with life-writing forms such as immigrant narrative, mother-daughter story, biomythography, and illness narrative, the study outlines the various ways in which the novel of individual development becomes an appropriate site for the negotiation of several enduring and contentious tensions in ethnic American writing. Of potential interest to scholars of American literature, but also ethnic, feminist and postcolonial literatures, and to students of American literature and culture, the book demonstrates the Bildungsroman's ongoing relevance and expanded capacity of representation in an ethnic American and postcolonial context.

Ethnicity in literature --- Ethnicité dans la littérature --- Etnisch bewustzijn in de literatuur --- Femme (Théologie chrétienne) dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la littérature --- Femmes dans la poésie --- Femmes dans le théâtre --- Vrouw (Christelijke theologie) in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de literatuur --- Vrouwen in de poëzie --- Vrouwen in het toneel --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in literature --- Women in poetry --- American literature --- Women authors, American. --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Language and culture --- Minority authors --- History and criticism. --- Bildungsroman [American ] --- Women authors --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- American fiction --- Kincaid, Jamaica --- Cisneros, Sandra --- Kingston, Maxine Hong --- Lorde, Audre --- Criticism and interpretation --- Bildungsromans, American --- American Bildungsromans --- Women in literature.

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This book investigates the exilic literature of Caribbean-born and Caribbean-descent writers who, from their new location in Northern America, question their cultural roots and search for a creative autonomy.

Nationalism --- Ethnicity --- West Indians --- Creole literature --- Creoles --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Ethnology --- Racially mixed people --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Migrations. --- Kincaid, Jamaica. --- Naipaul, V. S. --- Laferriere, Dany. --- Danticat, Edwidge, --- Conde, Maryse. --- Broyard, Anatole. --- Condé, Maryse --- Condé, M. --- Laferrière, Dany --- Laferrière, Windsor Kléber --- Richardson, Elaine Potter --- Caribbean Area --- Caribbean Free Trade Association countries --- Caribbean Region --- Caribbean Sea Region --- West Indies Region --- Emigration and immigration. --- Littérature créole --- Ethnicité --- Nationalisme --- Condé, Maryse. --- Laferrière, Dany. --- Région caraïbe --- Emigration et immigration. --- Naĭpol, V. S. --- Naĭpol, V. S., --- Naĭpol, Vidiadkhar Suradzhprasad, --- Найпол, В. С., --- Найпол, Видиадхар Сураджпрасад, --- נאיפול, ו. ס. --- Émigration et immigration --- Littérature créole --- Émigration et immigration --- Ethnicité