Annie John (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Elaine Potter Richardson
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Novel
- 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's eight short chapters can be read separately as narrative sketches. Together, however, they trace the course of Annie John's fall from the innocent Eden of her childhood into an angry alienation from her mother and her island home, which have both nurtured and stifled her. In the first chapter, Annie recalls how, when she was about ten, she began to think about death, realizing that even children can die. She becomes so obsessed with the idea of funerals that she lies to her mother about where she has been in order to attend the funeral of a child she has never even...
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