RETRACING LIMINAL EPISTEMOLOGY IN JAMAICA KINCAID’S BILDUNGSROMAN
RETRACING LIMINAL EPISTEMOLOGY IN JAMAICA KINCAID’S BILDUNGSROMAN

Summary/Abstract: Jamaica Kincaid’s eponymous protagonists Annie John and Lucy negotiate between multiple knowledge currents that join the archipelagic and the diasporic Caribbean via routes stretching across the Black Atlantic. Their maturation in-between grand narratives is determined by the insular version of the epistemic condition of the borderlands that is loaded with meanings both heavy and charged. In Kincaid’s imagery, they acquaint the reader with the intersectional reach of producers of knowledge that are ultimately dismantled by the protagonists that seek to inhabit a world without polarities.

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