Antoinette’s struggle for her identity, her belonging and her existence began when she was just a little child where she could not define her own self properly. Antoinette is born in the midst of racial conflict. She is the daughter of a white Creole woman and an English slave owner in Jamaica. Antoinette is also excluded on the basis of her mother’s Creole origin; and so she is rejected by both the black and white population of the island. As Kadhim (2011) explains, “The black community doesn’t accept her because she is white. At the same time, she doesn’t fit into the world of the whites who consider those of mixed races as inferior to themselves” (p. 591). As a white Creole, Antoinette becomes a double outsider: “white nigger” for the Europeans
