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Jamaica Kincaid

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Jamaica Kincaid Biography (6)

Jamaica Kincaid

5,465 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

2,692 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

3,527 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

3,158 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

Jamaica Kincaid

4,415 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

9,094 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

Essays & Analysis (7)

Critical Review by A. Salkey

198 words, approx. 1 pages

In the following review, Salkey discusses the defining characteristics of the stories comprising At the Bottom of the River. Jamaica Kincaid's ten stories in At the Bottom of the River are not ... Read more

Critical Essay by Helen Pyne Timothy

4,515 words, approx. 16 pages

In the following essay, Timothy finds parallels in the mother-daughter relationship found in “At the Bottom of the River” and Kincaid's novel Annie John. Perhaps the most puzzling... Read more

Critical Essay by Moira Ferguson

13,232 words, approx. 45 pages

In the following excerpt, Ferguson views colonialism as a central theme of the stories in At the Bottom of the River. I can see the great danger in what I am—a defenseless and pitiful child. He... Read more

Critical Essay by Diane Simmons

12,962 words, approx. 44 pages

In the following essay, Simmons asserts that if read together and within the context of Kincaid's other work, the stories in At the Bottom of the River “trace an emotional journey, a jou... Read more

Critical Essay by Edward J. Ahearn

12,241 words, approx. 41 pages

In the following essay, Ahearn provides feminist interpretations of At the Bottom of the River and Monique Wittig's Les Guérillères. The [chapters of Visionary Fictions] have trac... Read more

Critical Essay by Brenda F. Berrian

5,593 words, approx. 19 pages

In the following essay, Berrian identifies and discusses recurring motifs in At the Bottom of the River and Annie John. Increasingly, books by English-speaking Caribbean women writers concerned with t... Read more

Critical Essay by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert

14,761 words, approx. 50 pages

In the following essay, Paravisini-Gebert offers a thematic and stylistic analysis of the stories in At the Bottom of the River. At the Bottom of the River, Kincaid's first book, gathers most o... Read more

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