Chapter 6. Orality, performativity and the body in Jamaica Kincaid’s Autobiographie de ma mère

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents ix
3. Acknowledgements xiii
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. Assessing irony, characterization and religion in the Italian translation of Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 19
6. Chapter 2. Recodification of class and gender in the French translation of Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 61
7. Chapter 3. The passion for the real 101
8. Chapter 4. Dialogic spaces and intertextual resonances in the French translation of A. S. Byatt’s autobiographical story “Sugar” 145
9. Chapter 5. Jamaica Kincaid’s Autobiografia di mia madre 183
10. Chapter 6. Orality, performativity and the body in Jamaica Kincaid’s Autobiographie de ma mère 221
11. Conclusion 259
12. References 269
13. Name index 285
14. Subject index 289