PASSKEY Walcott and/or Kincaid P= Purpose(s) of text A= Audience(s) of text S= S

PASSKEY Walcott and/or Kincaid
P= Purpose(s) of text
A= Audience(s) of text
S= Subject matter of text
S= Stance of author toward text
K= Key passage of text (and why it is key!)
E= Elaborate on at least 3 questions and/or comments
Y= Your connection to the text (not so much did you identify with something in the text, but did it remind you of something–another text, another course, an experience, the news, etc.)
HERES LINK TO READING TO RESPOND TO EACH INITIAL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1978/06/26/girl
1. In the excerpt from A Small Place, Kincaid articulates her distress about the streets and the bank that were named after former slavers (or people who engaged in the slave trade). You might wonder at why she cares so much since the names are only “words.” But in “Girl,” the condensed string of “words” spoken by a mother to her daughter over a lifetime, we see how the internalization of these words over a lifetime has enduring power. What do you think about this idea in both of Kincaid’s works that “words matter,” and that it is important to think about the uses or histories of words? (For example, after reading this piece by Kincaid, whenever I watch the Premier League soccer teams play, sponsored by “Barclays Bank,” I cringe whenever I see the logo for Barclays. Am I being too sensitive when I do that?)
2. Is Kincaid the kind of writer Walcott is being critical of in his essay, one who sees history as a chain? Or does her cutting sense of humor about the English (and clueless tourists) cut away the chains to allow for the kind of “new world” or “adamic” sensibility Walcott seems to call for? LINK TO RESPOND TO THESE 2 QUESTIONDS: https://merceru.instructure.com/courses/81208/file…