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Annie John.(Book Review)

About 5 pages (1,464 words)

Radical Teacher, December 22nd, 2003

By Jamaica Kincaid. Farrar Straus Giroux, 1985, $11.00. Antigua in the British West Indies is Kincaid's home of origin and the setting for this coming-of-age novel about Annie John, a girl growing into young adulthood on an island wounded by a history of colonialism. Annie's loving early childhood home is transformed when she enters adolescence into a hostile place where her mother sees it necessary to simultaneously push Annie out of her circle of love and exert control over her life. Annie's struggle for independence from her family is similar to Antigua's move from colonialism to independe...

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