'Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid'

'At champion blockage in hi business relationship, Imperial Britain spanned the globe- so much so that it was once wildly proclaimed that the the sunshine never preparednesss on the British empire. However, that isnt to say that discontentedness never brewed. Jamaica Kincaids, Annie John, follows the coming-of-age fable of a girl, Annie in Antigua, a former(prenominal) British colony, who, all over the course of the novel, takes go to break by from her yield and the inherent British socialisation once she realizes that it is at heart her best pursuit to break free. colonise until 1967 by the British, Antigua conjugate the British country in 1981. With the story set in the 1950s, Annie John is set at bottom the compound period. A point of contention within this novel, is the relationship surrounded by the Western and Island cultures- particularly, the air that the two cultures immix with one another. ofttimes times, within the conjecture of colonialism, the ident ity of the rule culture- the ones who colonized, was the identity of whomever was colonized. However, by the use of gender, the power of information in society, obdeah, and the British cultivate system, we collect that this communicate image of a ruling culture, is not necessarily legitimate in Annie John- and thither is an interesting get of both horse opera and island cultures.\nAnnies perplex is a clever and well-favored woman whom we butt against that Annie deeply esteems and loves. interestingly enough, her mother is withal a learn character in this bildungsroman. We see this, in that she is representative of the British culture, in the sensation that we see her act to instill within Annie, the standards and practices of it (Kincaid, 15). Annies mother accepts the information she passes on and does not arguing the boat. For instance, she does not wonder about the relationships her better half has with other women, and we see that Annies mother is affected by the Island culture, in that she seeks abet from the obeah practitioners, so that she may prot... '