The influence of anxiety: re-presentations of identity in Antiguan literature from 1890 to the present

Thesis

This thesis examines Antiguan narratives’ peculiar engagements with the national question. It draws largely upon the works of four writers—Jamaica Kincaid, Joanne C. Hillhouse, Marie-Elena John and Frieda Cassin—and selected calypsonians including Antigua’s leading female and male calypsonians, Queen Ivena and King Short Shirt. It reads anxiety as the chief organising principle of the singular deconstructions of gender, ‘racial’, ethnic, and class identities undertaken by these texts. I of...

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Authors: Medica, H

• Publication date: 2014
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: Oxford University, UK
• Language: English
• Keywords: Caribbean calypso; Caribbean protest literature; Jamaica Kincaid; gender; race; Caribbean oral traditions; small-island literature; Antigua; Antiguan literature; class relations; Caribbean literary traditions; Caribbean literature
• Subjects: English Language and Literature