This article analyses the autobiographical novel My Brother written by Jamaica Kincaid, a
Caribbean writer who lives in the United States of America. The article shows how Kincaid’s
narrative texts and her self construction as a writer differ from the literature of other diasporic
writers, especially regarding her reluctance to participate in collective projects of transcultural
association. Nevertheless, a careful reading of the mourning represented in My Brother shows
how the narrator’s self-conscious discourse is subverted by the fragility and vulnerability
caused by the illness and death of a beloved person.
Keywords:
Jamaica Kincaid, literary diaspora, memory, bereavement, community
Stecher, L. (2011). Diáspora, duelo y memoria en Mi hermano de Jamaica Kincaid. Revista Chilena De Literatura, (78). Retrieved from https://cyberhumanitatis.uchile.cl/index.php/RCL/article/view/11558
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