Many postcolonial writers have entered into a critical dialogue with English classic texts, where the classic text is revised and functions as an important imaginative resource. If as John Mc Lead puts it in Beginning Postcolonialism, “A re-writing often exists to resist or challenge colonialist representations of colonised peoples and culture perceived in the source-text” (168), then the textual fragments present in Annie John gives the occasion for their revision. This paper seeks to bring out the textual allusions present in Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John. If any text is a transformation of previous texts, as Gerard Genette remarks (1997), then Annie John carries within it, aspects of texts from which it was inspired. And if any text is an intertext, then meaning in Annie John is influenced by the text or set of texts that contributed in its construction. The hypertextual relation therefore that exists between a text or hypertext and a previous text (hypotext) leads to the determination of sources as the point of departure. It is this determination of sources and a comparative analysis of hypertext with the hypotext that will be the focus in this study. The comparative analysis of the hypertext and its source (hypotext) will serve to identify the various intertextual elements present in Annie John. This paper therefore seeks to study intertextuality in Annie John. While using poststructuralism as the theoretical framework, it examines the textual fragments that abound in the novel and to reveal their influence both on the novel’s semantic construction and their significance in the field of postcolonial literature.
text, intertext, intertextuality, textual allusions
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