A Study On The Autobiographical Writing Of Jamaica Kinkade

Jamaica Kincaid,a black American writer of Caribbean origin,is one of the most important writers in contemporary English literature.Because her works are full of complaints and irony about European colonial rule,the academies tend to make a single anti-colonial and post-colonial political interpretation of her works from the perspectives of race,gender and class,and label her “angry”.However,the theme and connotation of Kincaid's works have much more to it than that.In the poetic writing process of personal experience,family history and travel experience,Kincaid's creative vision involves the exploration of self-identity,the view of national destiny and other aspects,and her travel notes of post-colonialism also reflects a clear sense of space.Therefore,Kincaid's autobiographical novel is the key to explore her creative theme and ideas.In order to understand her past and gain comfort,Kincaid wrote continually about her personal experience.In the review of her childhood and adolescent life experience,Kincaid explores the mother-daughter relationship between her love and hatred for her mother,Anne Drew,and finally establishes an independent individual identity by separating her from her mother.After immigrating to the United States,she turned her creative horizon to the search for cultural identity,and eventually established herself as an independent writer.As a woman,Kincaid also reflects on her gender role in literary works,and eventually explores an independent female identity that includes the subject of desire,the role of mother and the role of profession.Family,as a personal background,is an important part of autobiographical fiction.Kincaid traced the matrilineal genealogy and carefully observed the fate of Caribbean women under the dual domination of patriarchy and colonialism.In the process of portraying the image of the biological father,Kincaid reveals the status quo of the self-alienation of men in the Caribbean,and points out that literacy and writing are their possible ways out of slavery.In addition to the memories of her ancestors,Kincaid examined the living conditions of her peers through the memories of her brothers' lives,criticized the national character of Antigua,and explored the different fates that the sons of Antigua and the daughters of Antigua might have.Through the recollections or imaginative descriptions of her ancestors and peers,Kincaid not only has a better understanding of her own past,but also upgraded her family history to a Caribbean national fable.Traveling as a dynamic clue in the creation of Kincaid,connects individuals and families,past and present,motherland and current residence.In her post-colonial travel notes,Kincaid restored a complete and three-dimensional image of Antigua from two aspects of urban landscape and geographical landscape.Antigua,it is not a map to be developed under the gaze of colonists,nor a tourist paradise in the eyes of tourists,but a mysterious island with its own history and full of natural beauty.In the process of crossing and demarcating boundaries,Kincaid and her heroines broke the old order,established a new order and established a solid inner space on the psychological level.Through the construction of narrative space at three levels of discourse,plot and structure,Kincaid shaped the text into a space which is full of tension,and involved the reader in the text by using the torrent of language and abundant emotions,so that the reader also participated in her travels across time,space and culture.Kincaid's series of autobiographical works have become a channel for people to understand the whole trajectory of life of the Caribbean people.She herself was cured by the process of conceiving her autobiographical works and created her best work,Jamaica Kincaid.