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    Benna - Antiguan Folksongs, or Benna, Symbolize Sexuality, A Subject The Mother Fears Her

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    The mother fears her daughter knows too much about sexuality from Antiguan folksongs called benna. In response to her daughter's innocent question about buying bread, the mother explodes in anger, seeing the question as a sign her daughter is stubborn and determined to become a "slut" despite her advice. The passage uses vivid Antiguan words and expressions to describe the tense relationship between a mother trying to guide her daughter away from sexuality and independence.

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    Benna - Antiguan Folksongs, or Benna, Symbolize Sexuality, A Subject The Mother Fears Her

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    The mother fears her daughter knows too much about sexuality from Antiguan folksongs called benna. In response to her daughter's innocent question about buying bread, the mother explodes in anger, seeing the question as a sign her daughter is stubborn and determined to become a "slut" despite her advice. The passage uses vivid Antiguan words and expressions to describe the tense relationship between a mother trying to guide her daughter away from sexuality and independence.

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    The mother fears her daughter knows too much about sexuality from Antiguan folksongs called benna. In response to her daughter's innocent question about buying bread, the mother explodes in anger, seeing the question as a sign her daughter is stubborn and determined to become a "slut" despite her advice. The passage uses vivid Antiguan words and expressions to describe the tense relationship between a mother trying to guide her daughter away from sexuality and independence.

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    Benna - Antiguan Folksongs, or Benna, Symbolize Sexuality, A Subject The Mother Fears Her

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    Аліна Домарацька
    The mother fears her daughter knows too much about sexuality from Antiguan folksongs called benna. In response to her daughter's innocent question about buying bread, the mother explodes in anger, seeing the question as a sign her daughter is stubborn and determined to become a "slut" despite her advice. The passage uses vivid Antiguan words and expressions to describe the tense relationship between a mother trying to guide her daughter away from sexuality and independence.

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    stone heap – кам’яна купа

    clothesline – мотузка для білизни


    fritters - оладки
    soak your little cloths - замочувати
    turn someone else’s stomach – викликати тошноту
    Benna - Antiguan folksongs, or benna, symbolize sexuality, a subject the mother fears her
    daughter already knows too much about. 
    not like the slut you are so bent on becoming – не як повія, ти ж схильна до цього
    wharf-rat boys – крысенышь
    to hem a dress – підшити плаття
    a crease - складка
    okra -
    because okra tree harbors red ants -
    dasheen – дашин, тропічний фрукт
    if it is with your own spit – навіть якщо тобі все одно
    don’t squat down to play marbles - не приседай, чтобы играть в шарики
    blackbird - дрізд
    a bread pudding – хлібний пудинг
    doukona
    pepper pot
    to throw away a child
    to bully
    to spit up in the air
    Kincaid uses the words “feel” and “squeeze” to turn the act of buying bread into a metaphor for
    sexuality, and the baker’s refusal is therefore a sexual rebuke. In response to her daughter’s
    innocent question, the mother seems to explode in anger at her, as if one impertinent question
    demonstrates the futility of advising a stubborn and undisciplined girl bent on becoming a slut. 

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