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 mid-l950’s to the mid-1960’s
Setting: Antigua
Principal Characters: Annie John, Annie’s Mother, Annie’s Father, Gweneth Joseph, Ma Chess, The Red Girl
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

Jamaica Kincaid wrote Annie John shortly after the publication of At the Bottom of the River (1983), a volume of short stories. Though very different in tone and style from her first book, Annie John deals with much of the same material. Where the writing in At the Bottom of the River is ornately textured and impressionistic, however, Annie John is much more conventionally and realistically written. The result is that the two books read as companion volumes. At the Bottom of the River is a highly subjective treatment of the...

Annie John | Annie John

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