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Why Is She So "angry" ?

Posted on:2017-10-21Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H ChenFull Text:PDF
GTID:2335330485456950Subject:English Language and Literature
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Jamaica Kincaid is a great contemporary Caribbean American woman writer,who is famous for her angry writing style and magnificent language.Due to her identity of being a Caribbean girl who suffered heavy oppressions in her childhood,Kincaid gradually forms the mature angry writing style and develops a school of her own.The Autobiography of My Mother is Jamaica Kincaid's masterpiece,in which her angry writing style is well employed and gives its best performance.In this medium-length novel,Kincaid vividly depicts in a poignant tone how Caribbean women bear the triple oppressions from colonialists,patriarchs and women of upper class.Poor women like Xuela cannot put up with the tremendous stress which makes these women be filled with fury.The thesis includes three parts: introduction,main body and conclusion.The first part is an introduction to Jamaica Kincaid and her works and the relevant research achievements abroad and at home.Apart from the introduction and the conclusion,the main body of the thesis contains three chapters.In this part the author analyzes the novel through consulting Caribbean history and employing feminism theories.In the first chapter,the author analyzes how Caribbean women as a part of the whole Caribbean people were brutally oppressed and persecuted by the colonialists.Chapter Two expounds Caribbean women's low social status as the appendage of the patriarchs and the oppression they suffered.Chapter Three deals with the oppression lower class women suffered,which was enforced by white women and women with higher positions.In the last part,the author concludes that the triple oppressions Caribbean women of lower class like Xuela suffered are the reasons why they are so angry,and Kincaid,as the mouthpiece of poor Caribbean women,expresses with the power of writing her political condemnation of the three collectivities of colonialists and patriarchs and upper class women to draw people's attention to Caribbean women's appeal that they should have.
Keywords/Search Tags:triple oppressions, Caribbean women, colonial oppression, patriarchy, feminist criticism
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