ABSTRACT
In her novel, See Now Then, 2013, Jamaica Kincaid explores the dismantling of a marriage and the microaggressions of everyday life, which symbolically represent the pains and violence of the racist dehumanization experienced by all those who do not belong to the White privileged majority. Native to Antigua and now based in the United States, Kincaid writes of a deteriorating marriage, involving a Caribbean writer with a passion for gardening and a pianist. Race plays an important part in the ways in which the immigrant wife is morally abused by her American husband. In her musings, she cunningly investigates if the hatred among them was ever present, or if it grew over the years. The theorizations of Toni Morrison and Ta-Nehisi Coates are used to better understand the ways in which the figure of the Other is created in opposition to the normalized White subject in the United States. Kincaid produces a narrative that is a hybrid form of fiction and autobiography, giving sequence to a project that can be traced back to Annie John, 1985, Lucy, 1990, The Autobiography of my Mother, 1996, My Brother, 1998, and Mr. Potter, 2002.
