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Jamaica Kincaid is a novelist who was born in St. Johns, Antigua, in 1949. Her original name was Elaine Potter Richardson. The reason for her name change was because her family did not like the career path she chose for herself, so she no longer wanted ties with her family. She is known for writing stories that relate to the Caribbean culture. After moving to the United States at 17, she began writing for the New Yorker. One of her first pieces of fiction that she wrote was the short story,…

In History “In History”, by Jamaica Kincaid, weaves together the stories of Christopher Columbus, George Clifford, and Carl Linnaeus so that the reader may understand why the author is questioning her own history and those who are like her. Kincaid questions us, “What is History? Is it a Theory? Is it an Ideal” She answers these questions through the stories of these three men as they come across and label foreign people, lands, or plants. Kincaid implies that the act of identifying and…

Inspired by her childhood in destitute, colonial Antigua, Jamaica Kincaid wrote Girl as a means to write about the culture she grew up in. As a means to detail, if not subtly derail, the society’s demonization of female sexuality and “liberation” through domestic skills, the author employs at points crude diction, a run on syntax, and submissive characterization. The prattling syntax begins promptly in this selection and continues throughout largely as a means of smothering to indoctrinate…

Jamaica Kincaid, the author of the short story “Girl,” was raised on the island of Antigua. During the time in which she was raised, Antigua was influenced by the British government. Because of the British control, Kincaid was raised in a culture immersed in the ideals of oppression and slavery. Being an African American woman in Antigua during the rule of the British government influenced how she wrote later in life. She eventually moved to America and landed a job as a writer for The New…

children. Kincaid claims that the love her mother would give would not always be the best for them and we see how it has shaped Devon, her brother, into becoming completely overtaken by AIDS and how she has not spent much time with her family in Antigua and to better…

Serissa Sanchez ENGL 212-043 Dr. Hyo Kim 08 December 2016 "Girl" Jamaica Kincaid was born in 1949 in Antigua. She was born into poverty like most blacks in the Caribbean. She was also born during a time where women did not have many rights, like most of the world. In Kincaid's story "Girl", which is considered as guidelines that a mother would give her daughter on the rights and rules of becoming a woman. This story is more than instructions for a young girl, it shows a deeper seeded issue on…

Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” details sentiments of a mother advising her daughter how to become an Antiguan woman. It has no traditional plot, character descriptions, setting, or action. Instead, it only has two voices. From the story, the author strives to demonstrate the issues inherent in mother-daughter relationships, adolescent sexuality, contradiction of female roles, the legacy of colonialism, and life under patriarchy. All these are shown in the short piece, hence illustrating the mastery…

ones that influence the mood of others. A dictatorial country deceiving its people to adore them tampers with their trust and feelings. Jamaica Kincaid, the author of “On Seeing England for the First Time”, has grown up in the Caribbean Island, Antigua, while under English rule. Kincaid recounts her childhood experiences being under England colonization before Antigua’s independence in the year 1981. Jamaica Kincaid uses tone and repetition to reveal that she felt manipulated by England.…

This is evident as the author imaginatively constructs the reader as a global citizen who establishes artificial, and temporary, connections to the Caribbean nation of Antigua. Hence, the reader 's awareness of their role as a literary construction indicates that they have no real intention to internalise the culture or the story itself and, as a result, only engage in the country 's traditions to fulfil a superficial desire…

“Girl” the use of Kincaid’s childhood, history of Antigua, word choice, tone, and symbolism reveals the underlying life lessons for a traditional community from a wise mother to her young rebellious daughter. The daughter of Annie Richardson and Roderick Potter, Elaine Potter Richardson, later changed her name to Jamaica Kincaid, was born on May 25, 1949 in the town of St. John’s (Jamaica Kincaid Facts). The capital of a small Caribbean island of Antigua (Britannica, Kincaid, Jamaica 1949-).…