Annie John | Annie John

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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

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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