Chapter 5
Jamaica Kincaid’s Autobiografia di mia madre
Voices from the abyss
Article outline
- 5.1Introduction: Gloom and doom in Kincaid’s Autobiography
- 5.2Definitions of the negative and its significance in Kincaid and Diotima
- 5.3The political significance of chiasmus and litotes in Autobiografia
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5.4
Mise-en-abyme and patterns of redundancy in source text and target text
- 5.5Muraro’s complesso and Autobiografia
- 5.6The magical powers of the abyss
- 5.7Conclusion
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Notes