@article{article_1247232, title={THE SEARCH FOR AN IDENTITY IN CONSECUTIVE VERSES IN JAMAICA KINCAID’S AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER}, journal={Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi}, volume={47}, pages={153–165}, year={2023}, author={Zengin, Mevlude}, keywords={Prose Poetry, At the Bottom of the River, Jamaica Kincaid, The Search for an Identity,}, abstract={Jamaica Kincaid’s first book and first short story collection At the Bottom of the River is a work which offers the reader a pithy and lyrical style by which the author reflects the merging of the real and imaginary world of a young Antiguan girl growing into adulthood. The curt stories in the book are inter-related since they relate to some slices of the life of an unnamed female narrator. The aim of this article is to depict some of the most significant features which are believed to prove that the work can bear the epithet “prose poem”. During the study it has been observed that the work can also be considered to be a type of ‘poetic prose’. Yet, considering that both ‘prose poem’ and ‘poetic prose’ are close to each other in the sense that both of them are the genres “jumping the fence”, in other words, both genres exceed the boundaries of both poetry and prose, and thus that they are hybrid genres, I have seen no drawbacks of analyzing the collection in the perspective of prose poem. Briefly, the aim of this study is to reveal the poetic features in the work written in prose. When the images, metaphors, similes and symbols are explored in the stories in the collection, it has been observed that these figures of speech serve to illustrate the main character’s quest for identity and her depiction of her self which she gains at the end. For this reason, the study concurrently highlights the theme of search for an identity which is revealed in Kincaid’s book by means of the use of images and symbols.}, number={1}, publisher={Sivas Cumhuriyet University}, organization={Yok}