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title

Placing the Body: A Study of Postcolonialism and Environment in the Works of Jamaica Kincaid

author

Hutcherson, Jennifer Ann

abstract

This project examines the work of Jamaica Kincaid for iterations of the body, specifically how Postcolonial and Ecocritical theories may inform those representations. I will look at the narrators of Annie John, Lucy, and The Autobiography of My Mother for examples of embodiment, negotiations and hierarchy of place, and the different spheres of environment that each narrator must engage with. Though both terms, postcolonial and ecocritical, have wide and varied definitions, I will be focusing my discussions on those aspects of place that constitute each discipline. Within the ecocritical, I will target the environment and surroundings and how those affect and are mediated through the bodies of the protagonists. As for the postcolonial, I will pay attention to the experiences of the colonial and how each narrator reconciles the search for plenitude and source within the displacement of colonialism. Narrowed to the body, my topics will include the figure of the mother, sex and smell, death, and several other topics relevant to each novel.

subject

Body

Environmental

Literature

Phenomenology

Place

Postcolonial

contributor

Madera, Judith I (committee chair)

Hena, Omaar (committee member)

Still, Erica (committee member)

date

2015-06-23T08:35:46Z (accessioned)

2015-06-23T08:35:46Z (available)

2015 (issued)

degree

English (discipline)

identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/57127 (uri)

language

en (iso)

publisher

Wake Forest University

type

Thesis