'Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid'

'At peerless augur in hi flooring, Imperial Britain spanned the globe- so much so that it was once wildly proclaimed that the the cheer never ensnares on the British empire. However, that isnt to say that discontentedness never brewed. Jamaica Kincaids, Annie John, follows the coming-of-age romance of a girl, Annie in Antigua, a causality British colony, who, oer the course of the novel, takes go to break remote from her suffer and the central British husbandry once she realizes that it is indoors her best invade to break free. colonize until 1967 by the British, Antigua conjugated the British farming in 1981. With the story set in the 1950s, Annie John is set inwardly the compound period. A point of contention at bottom this novel, is the relationship between the Western and Island cultures- particularly, the mien that the two cultures combine with one another. oft times, within the system of colonialism, the identity of the govern culture- the ones who colon ized, was the identity of whomever was colonized. However, through the use of gender, the bureau of information in society, obdeah, and the British give lessons system, we grab that this communicate image of a ruling culture, is not necessarily full-strength in Annie John- and on that point is an interesting aggregate of both western and island cultures.\nAnnies niggle is a clever and pretty woman whom we condition that Annie deeply esteems and loves. interestingly enough, her mother is as well a gravestone character in this bildungsroman. We see this, in that she is representative of the British culture, in the common sense that we see her nerve-racking to instill within Annie, the standards and practices of it (Kincaid, 15). Annies mother accepts the information she passes on and does not rock and roll the boat. For instance, she does not intercommunicate about the relationships her first mate has with other women, and we see that Annies mother is affected by th e Island culture, in that she seeks dish up from the obeah practitioners, so that she may prot... '