Caribbean Genesis: Jamaica Kincaid and the Writing of New Worlds »

Jana Evans Braziel is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati and author of Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora

Philosophical exploration of Jamaica Kincaid's entire literary oeuvre.

Introduction Caribbean Genesis, Alterbiography, and the Writing of New Worlds 1

1 Alterrains of "Blackness" in At the Bottom of the River 21

2 Jablesse, Obeah, and Caribbean Cosmogonies in At the Bottom of the River 53

3 The Diabolic as Diasporic in Annie John and Lucy 79

4 Genre, Genealogy, and Genocide in The Autobiography of My Mother 101

5 Death and the Biographical Autograph in My Brother 129

6 Genre, Genealogy, and Genesis in Mr. Potter 175

Notes 137

Bibliography 207

Index 233