Death and the Diaspora Writer: Hybridity and Mourning in the Work of Jamaica Kincaid

Throughout her work, Jamaica Kincaid mourns the loss of not only individuals close to her, but also larger, more abstract entities such as home and the places in which something good happened. Mourning the homeland is one way for the diaspora writer to maintain a connection with it; this mode of connection represents less nostalgia than an inherently political style of transcultural association.