Fearsome Worlds and Uncanny Children: Gothic Early Childhoods in Condé’s La Migration des coeurs and Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother

Abstract Gothic depictions of early childhood and its antecedents from conception to childbirth stand fundamentally shape readers’ understanding colonialism across the transnational translinguistic space Caribbean. This effect is particularly visible in contemporary novels such as Maryse Condé’s La Migration des coeurs (1995) Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography My Mother (1996), which not only have been interpreted rewritings Wuthering Heights but also draw on a larger, more multicultural literary tradition. In their renderings sexual violence, doomed pregnancies, motherless infancy, Condé Kincaid appropriate edit conventions, highlighting persisting ramifications colonial project for women children. youth functions subversive site resistance with potential dismantle imperialist ideologies systems.