Jamaica Kincaid; The Autobiography of My Mother; unreliable narrator; slavery; colonialism
Abstract :
[en] Through locating the instances of unreliable narration and scrutinizing the mode and performative nature of the narrator’s account in Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother (1996), this essay argues that the novel exposes the pathology of colonialism. More precisely, by reading the novel alongside David Scott’s description of what would constitute a moral and reparative history, and Kehinde Andrews’s work on the psychosis of whiteness, the essay suggests that Kincaid’s text constructs the history that Scott advocates and reveals the psychology that allows the legacy of slavery and colonialism to continue.
Research Center/Unit :
CEREP - Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Études Postcoloniales - ULiège
Disciplines :
Literature
Author, co-author :
Romdhani, Rebecca ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues modernes : ling., litt. et trad. > Langue et linguistique anglaises modernes
Language :
English
Title :
Performing Delusional Evil: Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother
Publication date :
2018
Main work title :
Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature: On the Edge
Editor :
Ledent, Bénédicte ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues modernes : linguistique, littérature et traduction
O'Callaghan, Evelyn
Tunca, Daria ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues modernes : linguistique, littérature et traduction > Littérature anglaise
