A Feminist Narratological Study of Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother

Abstract

Feminist narratology has become a rich field in the study of language and literature. Gerald Prince states that it explores the implications of sex, gender and/or sexuality for understanding the nature, form, and functioning of narrative (1987: 65). The aim of this research paper is to examine the term ‘feminist narratology’ and its essential characteristics in gender construction. This interdisciplinary approach which combines the analysis of the narrative form with gender politics will be applied to Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother (1996) with a special reference to the use of language in the narrative discourse as a powerful tool in subverting the colonizer’s power