ABSTRACT
Jamaica Kincaid’s My Brother—an elegy on the HIV-AIDS disease and the messy and deplorable nature of the postcolonial country—presents the fundamental problem of self-definition and political displacement, the imperative of belonging and being rooted to the homeland that has created fertile grounds for the postcolonial individual who decides to travel out and creating a new identity in the host land. Therefore, this chapter seeks to assess the complex polarity of here and there in the characters’ process of constructing their being, and foreground the thesis that Kincaid’s non-fiction narrative represents the postcolonial individual as a transnational figure whose hereness and thereness blend in self-definition.