Sapphire ise Push (1996) adlı romanında 16 yaşındaki okuma yazma bilmeyen, obez, yoksul, HIV pozitif ve ailesi tarafından sürekli olarak istismar edilen Precious adlı Afrikalı Amerikalı bir kızın hikayesini anlatır. Jamaica Kincaid My Brother (1997) adlı otobiyografik eserinde kardeşi Devon’un AIDS’e bağlı ölümünü anlatır. In this paper, my aim is to examine My Brother andPush through Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection to show that bothDevon and Precious, as both racial and sexual pariahs living with HIV/AIDS, cannot live up to the standard, livable bodies and transgress and/or forced to transgress the borders of somatic proprieties, thus appearas border-passing, abject threats, showing “the sign of belonging to theimpure” (Kristeva, 102).
Thewhite phallocratic ethos, as well, oppresses the very being of Precious,exacerbating the familial tyranny under which Precious feels one stepcloser to abject. In Push the continual incestual rape of her abusivefamily results in Precious getting HIV/AIDS from her own father. Even when he is dead, he is abhorred andrendered aberrant. In My Brother, the heteronormativeand homophobic Antiguan discourse condemns Devon, pushing himto the margins of society. Both Devon and Precious transgress the borders of livablebodies, thus appearing as abject. Sapphire, inPush (1996), tells the story of a 16-year-old illiterate, obese, poor andHIV-positive African-American teenage girl living with her abusivefamily. 'The Color Purple for the nineties' Vogue 'Sapphire's vibrant, unindulgent first novel has you cheering the awesome Precious on until the last page' Mail on Sunday 'Has all the power and vehemence of rap.brutal in its defence of the vulnerable' Independent 'Part wishful prayer, part manifesto, mingling poetry and humour.splendid, turbulent, bracing s music takes you over, its story grips.Ī voice to remember' Scotland on Sunday 'Harrowing yet hilarious.Jamaica Kincaid’s My Brother (1997) is a memoir in whichshe recounts her brother Devon’s AIDS-related death. This is Precious's diary, in which she honestly records her relationships and her life. Placed in an alternative teaching programme, she learns to read and write. She is pregnant by her own father for the second time, and kicked out of school. This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen year old illiterate black girl who has never been out of Harlem. This 25th Anniversary Edition includes a new preface from Tayari Jones, and a new afterword by the author. * READ THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE FILM PRECIOUS *
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