In:Translating the Female Self across Cultures: Mothers and daughters in autobiographical narratives
Eliana Maestri
[Benjamins Translation Library 130] 2018
► pp. 183–220
Chapter 5Jamaica Kincaid’s Autobiografia di mia madre
Voices from the abyss
Published online: 18 January 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.130.c5
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.130.c5
Article outline
- 5.1Introduction: Gloom and doom in Kincaid’s Autobiography
- 5.2Definitions of the negative and its significance in Kincaid and Diotima
- 5.3The political significance of chiasmus and litotes in Autobiografia
- 5.4 Mise-en-abyme and patterns of redundancy in source text and target text
- 5.5Muraro’s complesso and Autobiografia
- 5.6The magical powers of the abyss
- 5.7Conclusion
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