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Jamaica Kincaid

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Ever since Jamaica Kincaid's work began appearing in The New Yorker magazine, it has excited critics and enthralled readers. Kincaid has been praised for her ability to tell the story of a girl attaining womanhood with all the emotion and beauty it deserves. Simultaneously, Kincaid expresses the significance and politics involved in that transition. Her second book, Annie John (1985), is comprised of short stories that first appeared in The New Yorker, Some critics...

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Annie John

5,642 words, approx. 19 pages

Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson on May 25, 1949. She lived with her Dominican homemaker mother and Antiguan carpenter stepfather as an only child unt... Read more

Jamaica Kincaid Biographies (6)

Jamaica Kincaid

2,676 words, approx. 9 pages

A significant voice in contemporary literature, Jamaica Kincaid (born 1949) is widely praised for her works of short fiction, novels, and essays in which she explores the tenuous relationship between ... Read more

Jamaica Kincaid

3,503 words, approx. 12 pages

Jamaica Kincaid gained wide acclaim with her first two works, At the Bottom of the River and Annie John. In these and other books about life on the Caribbean island of Antigua, where she was born, Kin... Read more

Jamaica Kincaid

4,414 words, approx. 15 pages

"As I go on writing, I feel less and less interested in the approval of the First World, and I never had the approval of the world I came from, so now I don't know where I am. I've exiled myself yet a... Read more

Jamaica Kincaid

9,061 words, approx. 31 pages

"The space between the idea of something and its reality is always wide and deep and dark," Jamaica Kincaid writes in the essay "On Seeing England for the First Time" (1991). And it is this space, wh... Read more

Jamaica Kincaid

5,418 words, approx. 19 pages

Biography Essay"As I go on writing, I feel less and less interested in the approval of the First World, and I never had the approval of the world I came from, so now I don't know where I am. I've exil... Read more

Jamaica Kincaid

3,183 words, approx. 11 pages

"Everyone thought I had a way with words, but it came out as a sharp tongue. No one expected anything from me at all. Had I just sunk in the cracks it would not have been noted. I would have been luck... Read more

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Symbolism in Annie John

689 words, approx. 3 pages

In the novel Annie John by Jamaica Kincaid, food is used in a symbolic manner. Kincaid uses the detailed description of foods, to convey the bitter/sweet relationship that Annie John and her mother sh... Read more

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