Examining Double Colonization and Subalternity in Jamaica Kincaid's Girl through a Postcolonial Feminist Perspective

Authors : Kanan Aghasıyev

Pages : 500-512

Doi:10.46868/atdd.2024.668

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Publication Date : 2024-04-02

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This article’s focus is Antiguan American writer Jamaica Kincaid’s short story Girl. The story is also known as a poem since it is written in a poetic shape. The story was published by The New York Times for the first time in 1978, and then later it was published in a book named At the Bottom of the River in 1983, alongside many other stories by Kincaid. Girl talks about a relationship between a mother and a daughter in a colonial society. In Girl, readers can see how a mother teaches her daughter about her duties as a woman and a future wife. The piece has always been seen as either a postcolonial or feminist literary piece, rather than being a postcolonial feminist work. However, in this article, I claim that Kincaid’s prose poem is a postcolonial feminist literary work that depicts the struggle of women in the colonized Antiguan society. I focus on postcolonial feminist concepts such as subalterns’ voices and the concept of women’s double colonization by giving related examples from Kincaid’s Girl.
Keywords : Jamaica Kincaid, Postcolonial Feminism, Subalternity, Double Colonialism, Patriarchy

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