...Jana Evans Braziel Copyright © 2003 by Wesleyan University Press 2003 JANA EVANS BRAZIEL Daffodils, Rhizomes, Migrations NarrativeComingofAgein the DiasporiWc ritingsofEdwidgeDanticat andJamaicaKincaid Published in 1990, Jamaica Kincaid's novel Lucyis a diasporic coming-ofage narrative. 1...

...Carol Bailey Abstract Jamaica Kincaid's compact and succinct story “Girl,” the lead story in the collection At the Bottom of the River (1983), has been lauded as one of the premier works in Kincaid's corpus, particularly her discourse on the making of “woman” in postcolonial Caribbean contexts...

...Sam Vásquez Abstract Despite striking similarities in their work and increased attention to the transnational Americas, there are few detailed comparisons between writers such as Toni Morrison (the most lauded African American female author of the twentieth century), and Jamaica Kincaid (the most...

... exploitative colonial economy. Jamaica Kincaid’s essays in A Small Place dramatize the competing narratives of vacation as happiness object and misery-causing activities within the framework of the structure of terror. Many critics read differences of race and class developed through figures of the tourist...

...Paula J. Giddings Copyright © 2014 by Smith College 2014 PAULA J.GIDDINGS Editor'sIntroduction This volume of Meridiansis rich with literature and politics. Lucille Clifton, Toni Morrison, Jamaica Kincaid, Martha Southgate, Dionne Brand, and Ralph Ellison are all subjects of critical essays...

... that signify women as "the other" can be effectively deconstructed. "Performance and the Gendered Body in Jamaica Kincaid's 'Girl' and Oona Kempadoo's BuxtonSpice"by Carol Bailey applies the frameworks of Judith Butler and others to examine postcolonial performative constructions of gender in two Caribbean...

... for 2002-2003, while on leave from the University ofWisconsin-La Crosse. Braziel has published articles on Jamaica Kincaid, Dany Laferriere, and Assia Djebar, and she is co-editor with Anita Mannur ofTheorizing Diaspora(Blackwell, 2003) and with Kathleen LeBesco ofBodiesOut ofBounds:Fatnesas nd...

... interview with Judith Ortiz Cofer, Jana Evans-Braziel's examination of writings by Edwidge Danticat and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as Suzanne Kamata's short story, "The Beautiful One Has Come"-each contributes to coming-of-age perspectives. Evans-Braziel's essay poignantly reveals the difficulties catalogued...

... been left out of the labor and education recruitment drives (as Bennett's audience learn from the speaker in the poem "Recruit In A SmallPlace,Jamaica Kincaid asserts that "every native of every place is a potential tourist. .. Every native would like to find a way out, every native would like a rest...

... of transcending these abiding conflicts as other scholars have claimed, Jamaica Kincaid’s collection of nonfiction essays, A Small Place , is a “narrative of irony and anger [that] reveals tourism as belonging to a structure of terror” (89). That structure of terror is buttressed by colonial epistemologies...

... that women can regain strength and memory of the past. It is important to note that in her action of writing a kitchen history, Danticat's voice rejoins the network of the diasporic voices of other women-bell hooks (United States); Jamaica Kincaid (Antigua/United States); Paule Marshall (Barbados/United...

..., and noncitizens. 4. Some of the authors whose texts can be classified under the coming-of-age rubric are, for example, Merle Hodge, Erna Brodber, Zee Edgell, Michelle Cliff, Grace Nichols, or Jamaica Kincaid. 5. Black Canadian feminist thought acknowledges the important and crucial role of black women in shaping...

... don’t know where I’m going to host my first online seminar meeting in this cramped space. I’m scheduled to teach Jamaica Kincaid’s novella, Lucy (1990), a profound, semiautobiographical narrative that reveals the complicated gendered, racialized, and transnational dynamics of migrant caregivers...

...,and SocialTransformation in Brazil." CulturaDl ynamic2s 3: no. 2, 85-106. hooks, bell. 1989.TalkingBack:ThinkingFeministT, hinkingBlack.Boston: South End Press. Hurston, Zora Neale. [1942]2006.DustTrackosnaRoad:AnAutobiographyN. ewYork: Harper PerennialModern Classics. Kincaid,Jamaica.1996...

... appeared in 1968. A few years prior, I had read about the book being censored and out of print and that there were nonetheless a few unauthorized copies circulating. Later on, as a graduate student, I chatted with another Caribbean professor, the Antiguan writer Jamaica Kincaid, who, upon hearing of my...

... Black Girlhood .” Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 19 , no. 4 : 275 – 83 . Jones Nikki . 2009 . Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner-City Violence . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press . Kincaid Jamaica . 1991 . “ Girl .” San Francisco...