SOURCE: Braziel, Jana Evans. “Jamaica Kincaid's ‘In the Night’: Jablesse, Obeah, and Diasporic Alterrains in At the Bottom of the River.” Journal X 6, no. 1 (autumn 2001): 79-104.
In the following essay, Braziel asserts that Jamaica Kincaid's utilization of Obeah, a Caribbean diasporic religion, in “In the Night” “is linked to contemporary Caribbean diasporas and the traversal of spaces, times, and cultures that such migration enacts.”
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