Culture of Jamaica

The short story “Girl”, by Jamaica Kincaid, is about a mother’s relationship with her daughter and the struggles they face when the mother tries constantly to control her child’s life choices. As a parent, she raises her children to know how to keep their house clean and how to effectively perform basic household chores. She tries very hard to give her daughter the best advice possible. Her mother also tells her how to make herbal medicine and to catch marine creatures like fish, crab, and…

“Girl” is a poem written by Jamaica Kincaid which was published in 1978 in The New Yorker. It was her first piece of published work. She is from Antigua, and most of her work contains stories of Antiguan life. As an African women, Kincaid always explores in her writing about class, race and gender discrimination. “Girl” is not exceptional from her other writing. Here she creates the image of Western Caribbean domestic lifestyle. The theme of this story is mother and daughter argument. In this…

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,…

Image Expectations: A Comparison In the nearly not-a-short-story “Girl,” Jamaica Kincaid tells of a girl growing up in Antigua and receiving a long list of rules from her mother, while in the short story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” Karen Russell writes about girls who were raised by wolves until taking in and reformed to fit into human society by nuns. Both stories have significant differences, but despite them, both “Girl” and “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”…

In the short story "Girl", by Jamaica Kincaid the main character is a mother, speaking to her daughter. The tone, mood, and tempo of the story suggests that the mother isn't having a nurturing conversation with her daughter, but nagging her instead. Throughout the story there is no plot and no point is made. While the mother is speaking, the daughter only responds twice. The first time she says "but I don't sing benna on Sundays at all and never in Sunday school", her mother disregards her…

In the prose poem carefully crafted by Jamaica Kincaid, throughout “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…

“Tanti at the Oval” was a piece done by writer, performer and most importantly; storyteller, Paul Keens-Douglas. Although Trinidadian by birth, he spent his early childhood in Grenada. He is well renowned for his ability to convey cultural equality in his work by ensuring it is appealing to virtually everyone, especially in such a cosmopolitan region. This particular piece entails the main character, Tanti Merle, and her journey to and from a cricket match at the Queen’s Park Oval in Trinidad…

another while accepting and learning about our differences, and living as a singular harmonized group. I’ve always gone to school. I’ve always gone to predominantly white schools. I’ve always gone to predominantly white schools, learning about white culture and history. I’ve always been the go-to historian on…

utilized multiple strategies to secure their hegemonic dominance by deeming other cultures peripheral and illegitimate. This paper is going to analyze and illustrate Caribbean cultural disaccumulation by using Padget’s plural cultural systems concept. The paper will then critically analyze the Europeans methods of establishing and maintaining their cultural legitimacy. Cultural differential accumulation of the European culture over the Caribbean cultured will also be critically explored and…

Meuse This essay is about Puerto Rico; the traditions or what the Puerto Rican people celebrate from generation to generation, the culture or where they come from and what religion they practice / were born into, and the customs of Puerto Ricans which are the things they do in day to day life.Puerto Ricans have Taino, African and Spanish influences on their culture. Taino is explained as native caribbean. One celebration that is unique to Puerto Rico is the birthday of Eugenio María de…