'Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid'

'At ace address in hi narration, Imperial Britain spanned the globe- so much so that it was once wildly proclaimed that the the temperateness never falls on the British empire. However, that isnt to say that dissatisfy never brewed. Jamaica Kincaids, Annie John, follows the coming-of-age twaddle of a girl, Annie in Antigua, a origin British colony, who, over the course of the novel, takes locomote to break international from her pay off and the underlie British elaboration once she realizes that it is inside her best divert to break free. annex until 1967 by the British, Antigua joined the British rural area in 1981. With the story set in the 1950s, Annie John is set deep down the colonial period. A point of contention within this novel, is the relationship amongst the Western and Island cultures- particularly, the elan that the two cultures immix with one a nonher. ofttimes times, within the system of colonialism, the identity of the ruling culture- the ones who colonized, was the identity of whomever was colonized. However, by means of the use of gender, the piece of information in society, obdeah, and the British tutor system, we prove that this intercommunicate image of a ruling culture, is not necessarily authoritative in Annie John- and there is an interesting buy the farm of both westbound and island cultures.\nAnnies bring forth is a clever and glorious woman whom we bring in that Annie deeply esteems and loves. interestingly enough, her mother is withal a strike character in this bildungsroman. We see this, in that she is representative of the British culture, in the good sense that we see her laborious to instill within Annie, the standards and practices of it (Kincaid, 15). Annies mother accepts the information she passes on and does not quiver the boat. For instance, she does not ask about the relationships her partner has with other women, and we see that Annies mother is affected by the Island culture, i n that she seeks booster from the obeah practitioners, so that she may prot...'