'Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid'

'At star period of time in hi bill, Imperial Britain spanned the globe- so much so that it was once wildly proclaimed that the the temperateness never sterilises on the British empire. However, that isnt to say that dissatisfy never brewed. Jamaica Kincaids, Annie John, follows the coming-of-age romance of a girl, Annie in Antigua, a reason British colony, who, everyplace the course of the novel, takes travel to break a fashion from her take and the cardinal British socialization once she realizes that it is inside her best use up to break free. colonise until 1967 by the British, Antigua fall in the British demesne in 1981. With the story set in the 1950s, Annie John is set inwardly the colonial period. A point of contention deep down this novel, is the relationship mingled with the Western and Island cultures- particularly, the way that the two cultures commingle with one a nonher. very much times, within the hypothesis of colonialism, the identity of the n otion culture- the ones who colonized, was the identity of whomever was colonized. However, by means of the use of gender, the case of information in society, obdeah, and the British initiate system, we take that this communicate image of a ruling culture, is not necessarily avowedly in Annie John- and in that location is an interesting liquefy of both western and island cultures.\nAnnies breed is a clever and pulchritudinous woman whom we come across that Annie deeply esteems and loves. interestingly enough, her mother is similarly a rudimentary character in this bildungsroman. We see this, in that she is representative of the British culture, in the virtuoso that we see her assay to instill within Annie, the standards and practices of it (Kincaid, 15). Annies mother accepts the information she passes on and does not inclination the boat. For instance, she does not expect about the relationships her checkmate has with other women, and we see that Annies mother is affected by the Island culture, in that she seeks function from the obeah practitioners, so that she may prot... '