JAMAICA KINCAID'S LUCY: CULTURAL IDENTITY AND THE SEARCH FOR SELF-FASHIONING

Resumo

This article analyzes the protagonist Lucy’s struggle for self-fashioning in Jamaica Kincaid’s work Lucy. This analysis is based on the theories of cultural identity (Hall) and self-fashioning (Greenblatt). It also discusses the protagonist’s individual choices in the American society in confrontation with her past, and her strive to overcome her condition of former colonized West Indian immigrant and subaltern.

Keywords: Identity; self-fashioning; immigrant.