Autobiografía de mi madre: novela de (de)formación

Camila Bunster

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The autobiography of my mother: (de)formation novel

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Camila Bunster Universidad de Chile

No. 24 (2017): Diciembre

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The present text tries to analyze The Autobiography of my mother by the Caribbean author Jamaica Kincaid, questioning its belonging to the genre of the “novel of formation” or “Bildungsroman” through the analysis of some characteristics of this genre that could not be applied to this novel. Specifically, it is proposed that the novel of formation its refers to the story of a young protagonist, a man, a white, who goes through a development process accompanied by a mentor until he is able to adapt to the social role that corresponds to him. Xuela, the protagonist of the novel in study, on the contrary, is a Caribbean girl who grows in a postcolonial world in which she rebels against the racial and gender categories that is trying to impose her. From the reflection of José Santiago Fernández on the parallels between the Bildungsroman and colonialism, and the theory of gender and psychoanalysis of Gayle Rubin and Luce Irigaray, this work analyzes the social models that operate in the novel and the resources through which Xuela rejects them, making it impossible to incorporate this novel into the Bildungsroman genre.

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Bildungsroman, postcolonialism, racism, gender

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Bunster, C. (2018). The autobiography of my mother: (de)formation novel. Nomadías, (24), 113–128. Retrieved from https://revistaei.uchile.cl/index.php/NO/article/view/49966

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