| Description |
1 online resource (155 pages) |
| Series |
Twayne's United States authors series ; TUSAS 646 |
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Twayne's United States authors series ; TUSAS 646
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| Contents |
Ch. 1. A Paradise Lost -- Ch. 2. Mother Mystery -- Ch. 3. Conjure Woman -- Ch. 4. Rhythm and Repetition: Kincaid's Incantatory Lists -- Ch. 5. Kincaid and the Canon: In Dialogue with Paradise Lost and Jane Eyre -- Ch. 6. At the Bottom of the River: Journey of Mourning -- Ch. 7. Annie John: Coming of Age in the West Indies -- Ch. 8. Lucy: In the New World -- Ch. 9. A Small Place: Masters and Slaves |
| Summary |
Drawing from virtually all available critical work on Kincaid, including Simmons's own interview, the first chapter alone is richly detailed enough to stand as the most complete study yet on Kincaid and her writing |
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In Jamaica Kincaid, author Diane Simmons provides a thoroughly comprehensive study, a biographical and critical examination of Kincaid and her work. Simmons considers all aspects of Kincaid's work without seeking to confine a complex, independent, and ever-evolving writer within narrow definitions. The first chapter, an elaborate biography, follows Kincaid through her childhood on the West Indian island of Antigua, her young adulthood as an au pair in New York, and her life as a free lancer for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice, and as a staff writer for The New Yorker. Simmons shows the remarkable process of self-invention by which an impoverished and awkward West Indian school girl named Elaine Potter Richardson was transformed into the prominent writer Jamaica Kincaid |
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Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Jamaica Kincaid |
| Analysis |
Antigua |
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English fiction |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-151) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Kincaid, Jamaica -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| SUBJECT |
Kincaid, Jamaica. fast http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst00116264 |
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Antiguans in literature.
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Women and literature -- Antigua and Barbuda -- Antigua -- History -- 20th century
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Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Antiguans in literature.
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Literature.
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Women and literature.
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| SUBJECT |
Antigua -- In literature
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| Subject |
Antigua and Barbuda -- Antigua.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0805746560 |
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9780805746563 |
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