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Negotiating Hall's Caribbean Identity in Kincaid's Annie John

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English

 

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September 1, 2014

 

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Annie John's quest for self-identification leads her on a path strikingly similar to the one Hall describes. From Annie's journey, the reader might be able to glean what Hall hopes to instill in his own readers when he writes, "What I want to suggest is that despite the dilemmas and vicissitudes of identity through which Caribbean people have passed and continue to pass, we have a tiny but important message for the world about how to negotiate identity" (Hall 281)...
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This message is clearly visible in Kincaid's novel if read along with Hall's article as a quest for Caribbean identity. Hall's first order of business is to explain how vital the origin of a people is to finding identity. In the following quote he explains that culture is the foundation of identity: But the discourse of identity suggests that the culture of a people is at root a question of its essence, a question of the fundamentals of a culture...
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