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Consequently, all of them see alienation as a universal human condition and perceive it through varying levels of consciousness. Such themes are remarkably played out in the works of two most popular post-colonial writers, Jamaica Kincaid and Junot D'az.

One can make an interesting discovery while analyzing Kincaid's Annie John and D'az's Drown against the historical backdrop of colonization and Civil Rights Movement - the marginalized role of the father figure. Kincaid's Annie John is a bildungsroman built around a woman protagonist whereas D'az's Drown is a collection of ten short stories focusing on the survival of young adolescent male protagonists. In Kincaid's work, we happen to see a father figure, even though he always exists on the periphery. On the other hand, Drown is marked by almost complete absence of fathers in the lives of their protagonists.

Annie's father, Mr. Alexander John is portrayed as a civil and a rather harmless man. Although he exists on the fringes of the familial setup, he is not devoid of love and affection for his family. In fact when filtered through young Annie's consciousness, he comes across as a caring father, who built their house, the furniture within and also the spoon with which she eats. There are moments of tenderness and sympathy that little Annie experiences with her father. In the initial chapters of the novel, he is a part of Annie's prelapsarian paradise. Although he does not come to represent the ideal of manhood, his character is delineated sympathetically. Even when Annie mentions that her mother protects her in the streets, when many women with whom his father had slept were trying to harm them by setting bad spirits, she happens to mention her father only in relation to her mother. Her intention is to highlight her mother's extremely protective and concerned attitude towards her and not to assess or rebuke her father's sexual misconduct. This unconscious mention of her father's promiscuity however, brings to the reader's attention the unequal gender relations in a patriarchal society. This inequality is further magnified when juxtaposed against a later episode in the novel, when Annie's mother calls her a slut after she spots her standing with a group of boys. Unfortunately, Annie's mother is trying to indoctrinate her into the same patriarchal order by trying to feminize her.

Even by the chance discovery of her parents in bed, Annie feels repugnance more towards her mother than her father. When Annie begins to view her mother resentfully, she also transfers the negativity to her father. This is indicated through these lines : "they were eating away as they talked, my father's false teeth making that clop-clop sound like a horse on a walk as he talked, my mother's mouth going up and down like a donkey's ' I was looking at them with a smile on my face but with a disgust in my heart". The father is now perceived as an outsider, trying to encroach upon her relationship with her mother. Annie shared a strong bonding with her mother, which could never be rivaled by what she felt for her father. He was never important to her emotionally. Towards the end, though she experiences conflicting emotions towards her parents, one can see that her father is supportive and takes care of her, while she gets delusional and bedridden. Finally, before her final moment of departure, she recollects the time spent with her father and feels nostalgic.