The topic for essay 2 (Option B)
3 pages
Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” & Applied Literary Theory
In a well-organized essay discuss how Jamaica Kincaid’s experimental text “Girl” resonates with two of the essays discussed in the course thus far. To clarify the term “resonate,” you may focus on how the selected texts amplify, complicate, and/or contradict one another in some specific way. It is crucial that you use examples and supporting evidence from the texts to develop your argument: please do not use opinions or generalizations as support.
sources: Franz Fanon’s “The Fact
of Blackness”, Gayle
Rubin’s “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ‘Political Economy
of Sex”, : Judith Butler’s “Interiority
to Gender Performatives”