Narrative Women in Context in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother and Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out.

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Narrative Women in Context in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother and Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out. <Tab/>When looking at literature as a symbolic representation of life, the absence of a mother figure within the narrative may have a direct correlation with the portrayal of society as strictly patriarchal. In Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother, the loss of Xuela's mother and alienation from her father is reflective …
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…an old English park" (Internet source). Unlike Xuela, however, the British environment is beautiful, in contrast to the original. Works Cited Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. New York, NY: Washington Square, 1970. Kincaid, Jamaica. The Autobiography of My Mother. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & <Tab/>Giroux, 1996. Segal, Lore. "The Autobiography of My Mother." The Nation, (1996): Feb, 23-26. Woolf, Virginia. The Voyage Out. At: http://ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext94/voout10.txt
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