Fracturing Subjectivities: International Space and the Discourse of Individualism in Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain and Jamaica Kincaid's Mr. Potter

Abstract

This article addresses a concept of individualism that has emerged in some contemporary Caribbean fictions. I examine the evidence of this in a general way and then with reference to Jamaica Kincaid's Mr. Potter and Colin Channer's Waiting in Vain. I suggest that their individualism, though seemingly anomalous to diasporan thought, is in fact an “uncanny” product of the diasporan search for connections across borders.

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