Between Light and Shadow: Diffracted Writing in Jamaica Kincaid's Mr. Potter and See Now Then

Authors

  • Roland Walter Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.i32p72-81

Keywords:

Jamaica Kincaid, Mr. Potter, See now then, decolonial writing, colonialism/coloniality

Abstract

On the basis of Caribbean postcolonial theory (Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Édouard Glissant, Wilson Harris, Patrick Chamoiseau, René Depestre), this article examines the novels Mr. Potter and See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid. The objective is to present some relevant theoretical ideas developped by Caribbean thinkers and analyze specific decolonial characteristics in Kincaid’s texts. The main questions guiding the analysis are: how does Jamaica Kincaid write in a post/neocolonial context? How does she represents the characters at the colonialism-coloniality interface? What are the decolonial characteristics of her diffracted writing?

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Author Biography

  • Roland Walter, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco

    Roland Walter é Professor Titular do Departamento de Letras da UFPE e Pesquisador do CNPq. É doutor em Literatura Comparada pela Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz, Alemanha (1992) e fez pós-doutorado na University of California, Santa Cruz (2000). Roland Walter é autor de três livros — Magical Realism in Contemporary Chicano Fiction (Vervuert, 1993), Narrative Identities: (Inter)Cultural In-Betweenness in the Americas (Peter Lang, 2003) e Afro-América: Diálogos Literários na Diáspora Negra das Américas (Bagaço, 2009) —, editou o e-book “As Américas: Encruzilhadas Glocais” (Ed.UFPE, 2007), coeditou os livros Narrações da Violência Biótica (Ed.UFPE, 2010) e Entre Centros e Margens: Literaturas Afrodescendentes da Diáspora (Ed. CRV, 2015) e publicou numerosos artigos e capítulos de livro no Brasil, na Argentina, em Cuba, no Canadá, nos Estados Unidos, na Inglaterra, na Alemanha e na Holanda. Entre 1997 e 2006 ele foi Editor Associado do periódico acadêmico MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United Sates). Em 2004 ele foi Professor Visitante na Eberhard-Karls Universität,  Tübingen, Alemanha. Entre 2004 e 2015 foi Pesquisador Associado de GIRA (Groupe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Amériques) em Montreal, Canadá. E-mail: walter_roland@hotmail.com

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Published

2022-07-28

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No. 32 (2022): Itinerários caribenhos: rotas traçadas e cartografias por vir

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Walter, R. . (2022). Between Light and Shadow: Diffracted Writing in Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Potter and See Now Then. Revista Criação & Crítica, 32, 72-81. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.i32p72-81