ENG365H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jamaica Kincaid
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Found sentence : a decontextualized sentence that resonates with you but you"re not exactly sure why. Is like a list, rather than a story about being a girl with a tradition beginning / middle / end. Lists were a feature of epic literature (illyiad by homer) Girl is like a decontextualized catalogue / list whereas epic literature would also involve the story around the lists. Timeless, due to the implication that girl is a conversation between a mother / caretaker and her daughter (since the mother / daughter relationship relies heavily on the mother telling the daughter ways of life) What the mother says to the daughter gives insight into her personality as well as what she thinks about her daughter. Benna: certain kind of song sung in barbados. Doukona, benna gives us an idea of the story"s setting (a specific part of the caribbean) and a certain type of culture.
