Dear Habeba, what about trying some quantitaitive measurements, for instance collocations or keywords? — It can be a very good springboard for literary interpretations. If you wish to try them out, feel free to contact me.

Habeba Salem As for the theoretical background, the following could help you:

_ Felluga, Dino (April 2005). ""Modules on Lacan: On the Gaze", Introductory Guide to Critical Theory". West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.: Purdue University.

_ Mulvey, Laura (2009), "Visual pleasure and narrative cinema", in Mulvey, Laura (ed.), Visual and other pleasures (2nd ed.), Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire England New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 14–30.

J o n es, L isa (1990) " Some Nerve: Writer Jamaica Kincaid Has a Few Choice Words with Lisa Jones about Race, Class, Power, Mother Love... " In: Mirabella (November 1990), 74-75.

P ratt, M ary L ouise (2008) Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. 2nd ed. London: Routledge.

S pell m a n, E lizabeth V. (1998) Inessential Woman: Problems o f Exclusion in Feminist Thought. Boston: Beacon Press.

P aravisini-G ebert, L iza beth (1999). Jamaica Kincaid: A Critical Companion. Westport, Connec ticut and London: Greenwood Press.

K en n e d y, L ouise (2002): " A Writer Retraces her Steps: Jamaica Kincaid Finds Herself in her Words. " The Boston Globe 7 November 1990: Living Section85. LexisNexis Academic Uni­ verse* 6 Sept. 2002 < http://web.lexis-nexis.com/> K in c a id, Jam a ica (1985).

P yne T im o th y, H elen (1998) " Adolescent Rebellion and Gender Relation in At the Bottom o f the River and Annie John " Jamaica Kincaid. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers.

Annie John. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. K in c a id, J amaica (1992) At the Bottom o f the River. New York: Plume-Penguin.

N ie sen. D e A b run a, L aura (1998) "Family Connections: Mother and Mother country in the Fic tion o f Jean Rhys and Jamaica Kincaid." Jamaica Kincaid. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers.

V orda, A llan (1993) " I Come from a Place That's Very Unreal: A n Interview with Jamaica K in­ caid. " Face to Face: Interviews with Contemporary Novelists. Ed. A llan Vorda. Houston: Rice University Press

M il ls, S., (1996): "Gender and Colonial Space." Gender, Place and Culture 3,125-147.

H a l l, S tuart (1990) "Cultural Identity and Diaspora." In: J. R utherford (ed.) Identity: Commu nity, Culture, Difference. London: Lawrence.

J o n es, L isa (1990) "Some Nerve: Writer Jamaica Kincaid Has a Few Choice Words with Lisa Jones about Race, Class, Power, Mother Love..." In: Mirabella (November 1990), 74-75.

K en n e d y, L ouise (2002): "A Writer Retraces her Steps: Jamaica Kincaid Finds Herself in her Words." The Boston Globe 7 November 1990: Living Section85. LexisNexis Academic Uni verse* 6 Sept. 2002 < http://web.lexis-nexis.com/>

K in c a id, Jam a ica (1985). Annie John. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. K in c a id, J amaica (1992) At the Bottom o f the River. New York: Plume-Penguin. K in c a id, J amaica (2 0 0 2 ) Lucy. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

M c C lin to c k, A n n e (1995) Imperial Leather: Race, Gender Sexuality in the Colonial Context. New York: Routledge.

O 'C all a g h a n, E velyn (1998). "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Textual/Sexual Alternatives in Selected Texts by West Indian Women Writers." Christine Barrow, ed. Caribbean Portraits: Essays on Gender Ideologies and Identities. Kingston: Ian Randle Publishers.

P yne T im o th y, H elen (1998) "Adolescent Rebellion and Gender Relation in At the Bottom o f the River and Annie John" Jamaica Kincaid. Ed. Harold Bloom. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers.

V orda, A llan (1993) "I Come from a Place That's Very Unreal: A n Interview with Jamaica K in caid." Face to Face: Interviews with Contemporary Novelists. Ed. A llan Vorda. Houston: Rice University Press