Jamaica KIncaid- Girl

“Girl” Jamaica Kincaid The poem “Girl” by author Jamaica Kincaid shows love and family togetherness by creating microcosmic images of Western Caribbean familial practices and imbedding them in a seemingly incomprehensible text. Upon closer examination, the reader sees that the text is a string of images that are the cultural practices and moral principles that a Caribbean woman is passing along to her young daughter. Jamaica Kincaid has taken common advice that daughters are constantly …

…a literary work is the basic reason why people read in the first place. If an analysis has to be a chore or a nightmare of picking the text to pieces, then reading for enjoyment and for exposure to new cultures and ideas becomes an unpleasant burden. The Reader Response/Biographical/Historical critical technique is nothing more than a reader’s chance to learn more from the text than what is written on the page.