Mariah
The narrator, who is from Antigua, has been an au pair for Mariah's children now for the last three months. When spring finally arrives, she feels like…
Jamaica Kincaid's "Mariah" on colonial education: "I had been made to memorize it, verse after verse... I was then at the height of my two-facedness: outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true." Daffodils as weapon of empire.