Narrative Women in Context in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother and Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out. <Tab/>When looking at literature as a symbolic representation of life, the absence of a mother figure within the narrative may have a direct correlation with the portrayal of society as strictly patriarchal. In Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother, the loss of Xuela's mother and alienation from her father is reflective …showed first 75 words of 2572 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2572 total…an old English park" (Internet source). Unlike Xuela, however, the British environment is beautiful, in contrast to the original. Works Cited Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. New York, NY: Washington Square, 1970. Kincaid, Jamaica. The Autobiography of My Mother. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & <Tab/>Giroux, 1996. Segal, Lore. "The Autobiography of My Mother." The Nation, (1996): Feb, 23-26. Woolf, Virginia. The Voyage Out. At: http://ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext94/voout10.txt