Leer y escribir en una colonia. Releer y reescribir en la poscolonia. Movimientos en la escritura de Jamaica Kincaid

Abstract

Reading and writing understood as dispositives that mediate the registration of and access to ways of knowing, doing, being and feeling good can guarantee the reproduction of certain stories and their logic of power, but they can also interrupt or transform them. For there to be an interruption, one must return to what was narrated. That return on is registered in the re that indicates the re-reading. For there to be transformation and reinvention, you have to rewrite. In this essay we propose reading and writing, as well as re-reading and re-writing as operations that make it possible to notice feminist and postcolonial politics in Jamaica Kincaid’s trilogy: Autobiography of my mother (1995), My brother (1997) and Mr. Potter (2002).