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Kincaid is nothing if not an optimist, though, and he believes that if what's wrong with the way we talk about child molesting is genre--we're telling the wrong kinds of stories--well, then we should just start telling different ones.
Book -- My Brother , by Jamaica Kincaid;
Kincaid's favorite fictional themes show up in My Brother , and they gain from the real-life urgency.
There's the messed-up sexuality of Antigua, the way girls are taught to be virgins while boys are encouraged to be careless and promiscuous; Kincaid's heroines have suffered from this sick training, and here we watch it slowly kill her brother.
It's possible to dismiss such prescriptions as naive, but in the context of the quasideterministic Foucauldianism from which Kincaid's brand of cultural criticism emerges, they're refreshing--even startling.