By empowering her female protagonist both sexually and intellectually, Kincaid seems to refuse to reduce women to any forms of submissiveness or victimization. The current paper will explore how Kincaid attempts to reshape the conventional order of established social conventions through her fiction.

In her The Autobiography of my Mother, the Caribbean author seems to overthrow traditional modals of order that adhere to the superiority of the figure of the “patriarch” through the female narrator, who is at the same time the protagonist. A female postcolonial and a feminist writer, who also writes within the framework of post-modernism, Jamaica Kincaid is among those who have tackled the issue of (dis)order in a multiplicity of ways in their fiction. In literature, for instance, writers, not only of different nationalities and ethnicities, but also of various intellectual affiliations, have displayed a particular focus on this area of interest. Concern with questions of order and disorder has risen in a variety of fields and disciplines, resulting in a great deal of controversy in relation to these two apparently ‘dichotomous’ concepts.

Subvert the patriarchy