Annie John Summary
Jamaica Kincaid

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

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 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

"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

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