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They are, rather, streams meandering, or urging, across the landscape of history, merging with the diluting flow of other tributaries, and transforming into broader yet more discrete currents of cultural identity. Identity here is not a past to be evoked, nor an object to be contemplated in tranquillity, but a dynamic quest, as well as the sum of successive encounters and mixings across time. (1) The dynamism and the mixing which result from these cultural encounters result in an unruliness of this oral world, and it is to this essential energy that Kincaid responds, using it as the context for self-definition and identification.

Having rendered traditional constructions inadequate to her self-mythologizing, she is reluctant to abandon them totally, for she needs community and a history of connectedness to root her while she gallivants. In her essay “Rootedness, the Ancestor as Foundation,” Morrison argues that the ancestor is always present in black literature: “And these ancestors are not just parents, they are sort of timeless people whose relationships to the characters are benevolent, instructive, and protective, and they provide a certain kind of wisdom” (496).

MERLE HODGE Caribbean Writers and Caribbean Language: A Study of Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John C aribbean writers operate in a language situation which is both problematic and full of possibility, and the relationship between the Caribbean writer and the language of the people who are the focus of Caribbean literature is an area of study yet to be fully explored by literary critics. In most Caribbean countries the main medium of spoken communication is a Creole language which is the product of contact between European and West African languages.

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