Annie John (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Elaine Potter Richardson
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Bildungsroman
- Time of Work: The late 1950’s to the mid-1960’s
- Setting: Antigua, West Indies
- Principal Characters: Annie Victoria John, Mrs. Annie John, Mr. Alexander John, Gweneth (Gwen) Joseph, The Red Girl, Ma Chess
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman, Domestic realism
- Subjects: 1950’s, African Americans, Girls, Maturation or coming of age, 1960’s, Child rearing or parenting, Children, Mothers, Parents and children, Caribbean, Adolescence, Blacks, Colonialism, Colonies or colonization, Teenagers
- Locales: Antigua, West Indies
Form and Content
Annie John, originally published as a series of short stories in The New Yorker magazine, is the story of the title character’s childhood and adolescent years in Antigua, West Indies. The novel is divided into eight chapters, each with its own title and internal unity of plot. Set in Antigua, these eloquent and engaging chapters chronicle Annie’s confused understanding of the rift between her happy, carefree girlhood years of adulation for her mother and the power struggle and rebellion that mark Annie’s transition into adolescence. The tale...
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