Jamaica Kincaid and the Canon: In Dialogue With "Paradise Lost" and "Jane Eyre."(West Indian writer; British novels)

From: MELUS | Date: June 22, 1998| Author: Simmons, Diane | Copyright information

The fiction of West Indian writer Jamaica Kincaid demonstrates how the writer simultaneously identified with and was liberated from the English literature she was raised on as a schoolgirl in the British colonial educational system. Her novels "Annie John" and "Lucy" are about West Indians but have literary parallels to John Milton's "Paradise Lost" and Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre." Kincaid uses the British literature to help define the situation into which the British colonial system has p...

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