Many of Kincaid’s written works focus on mothers and mother-daughter relationships, though her 2002 novel, Mr. Potter, focuses on fatherhood. In Annie John, Kincaid explores her childhood and adolescence in Antigua in the poetic, hypnotic, and deceptively simple prose that has characterized her writing.
Antigua—an overview. Antigua is part of the Leeward chain of Caribbean islands of the Lesser Antilles. Its first inhabitants were the Arawak people, replaced in the twelfth century by the fierce Carib peoples, who held sway over most of the region. In 1493, during his second voyage to the Americas, Christopher Columbus landed on the island and christened it “Santa Maria la Antigua.” Together, Carib marauders and a lack of fresh water sources prevented the island from being colonized by Europeans until 1632, when a group of Englishmen arrived from overcrowded St.
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