The Gap between Two Generations in Selected Poems by Jackie Kay

Authors

  • Assistant Professor Shireen Shihab Hamad Department of English Language and Literature, College of Education for Humanities University of Wasit

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31185/lark.Vol3.Iss46.2605

Keywords:

Jackie Kay, family relationship, gap, generations, mother.

Abstract

This research explores how Jackie key presents family relationships and the gap that exists between two generations; that of parents and of children. Despite the fact that there is compassion and love in these relations but still the gap cannot be denied. It is too deep to a degree that it causes a lack of communication. Using humor, native language, and racism,  Kay has intensified the struggle between what represents the past and the present. The poems discussed are: "“My Grand-mother’s Houses”; “Keeping Orchids” ; “Lucozade”; “Bed”; “Divorce”; and “Gap Year”.

References

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Kay, J.(2007). Darling: New and Selected Poems .Newcastle University: Bloodaxe Books.

K, J.(2010). Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey. New York: Atlas & Co. Print.

Prasad, R.(1992).Generation Gap: a Sociological Study of Inter-generational Conflicts. India: Mittal Publications.

Gish, N. (2001). Adoption, identity, and voice: Jackie Kay’s inventions of self’, In Novy, M. (ed.), Imagining Adoption: Essays on Literature and Culture, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Wilson, R.E., Somerville-Arjat, G.(ed.).(1990). Sleeping With Monsters: Conversations With Scottish and Irish Women Poets. Dublin: Wolfhound Press.

Brown, H. “Jackie Kay: Interview.” The Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group, 5 June 2010, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/7800799/Jackie-Kay-Interview.html

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Published

2022-06-30

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west languages

How to Cite

Shireen Shihab Hamad, A. P. (2022). The Gap between Two Generations in Selected Poems by Jackie Kay. Lark, 14(4), 860-851. https://doi.org/10.31185/lark.Vol3.Iss46.2605