Kincaid weaves an intricate human interest story using colonial English to present her point of view. There are also sociological details about obeah, bush baths and burials that establish the boundaries of fear that lead to Annie's self-deprecating development. Questions of sexuality (homo and hetero), of physiological and psychological maturing and mother-daughter relationships, are part of the intricate, narrative fabric. This transition into young adulthood is fraught with danger for Annie, especially with respect to sexuality. Another inter textual layer is the reality and adjustment that she has to go through from her pre-teen years to adolescence which in essence is the death of one age and the growing emergence of another milestone in life. Death, in Annie's situation, is symbolic of a separation which foreshadows her growing estrangement and alienation from her mother. Amidst this turmoil, there is the individual identity which is smothered in a geographical wasteland.Īnnie's obsession with the nature of death is also linked to two myths: the living dead and the effects of touching the dead. The thematic threads in the novel are held together by Annie's primal concern about death, its meaning, the loss it engenders, and the frustration and pain which emanate from it. Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John is such a book. |1 .i137545095 |b 190801933762 |d aigci |g - |m |h 0 |x 0 |t 0 |i 0 |j 333 |k 210501 |o - |a PS3561.West Indian folklore is replete with phobias and neurotic beliefs which impact the lives of children and affect their psycho-emotional development. |a Teenage girls |0 |z Antigua and Barbuda |z Antigua |0 |v Fiction. |a Mothers and daughters |0 |z Antigua and Barbuda |z Antigua |0 |v Fiction. |a New York : |b Farrar, Straus, Giroux, |c
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