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| Name: |
Jamaica Kincaid | | Variant Name: |
Elaine Potter Richardson, Allen Shawn, Mrs. | | Birth Date: |
May 25, 1949 | | Place of Birth: |
St. John's, Antigua | | Nationality: |
American | | Ethnicity: |
African American | | Gender: |
Female | | Occupations: |
short story writer, novelist, essayist, memoirist, nonfiction writer, educator |
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 Biography of Jamaica Kincaid
9,094 words, approx. 30 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, which "starts out empty . . . but rapidly becomes... summary from source:
 Biography of Jamaica Kincaid
5,465 words, approx. 18 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 again," pronounced Jamaica Kincaid in a 1990... summary from source:
 Biography of 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, Kincaid employs a highly poetic literary style...
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 Jamaica Kincaid Quotes
33 words, approx. 1 pages
 If I actually ran the world, I'd do it from the kitchen. It's not anything deliberate or a statement or anything, that's just how I understand things. It's arranged along informal...
Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 Jamaica Kincaid Information
769 words, approx. 3 pages
Jamaica Kincaid (b. Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson, 25 May 1949 in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda) is an American novelist, gardener, and gardening writer. She lives with her family at North Bennington in the U.S. state of...
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 Publishers Weekly Jamaica Kincaid: daring to discomfort.(Interview)
01/01/1996: 2,131 words, approx. 7 pages Antigua-born writer Jamaica Kincaid, author of such praiseworthy books as 'A Small Place' and 'Annie John,' discusses her approach to writing in light of her most recent novel, 'The Autobiography of My Mother.' Kincaid prefers to work spontaneously, rather than according to a fixed... summary from source:
World Literature Today The rhythm of reality in the works of Jamaica Kincaid.
06/22/1994: 6,543 words, approx. 22 pages Jamaica Kincaid's novels focus on the themes of loss and betrayal, particularly a mother's betrayal of her daughter. This sense of betrayal is underlined by treachery that reflects a constantly changing reality that displaces a paradise of some sort. That paradise is hazy, partly... summary from source:
 AP News Young author Iweala set for med school
2/12/2007: 933 words, approx. 3 pagesWhen Uzodinma Iweala's debut novel, "Beasts of No Nation," was published in 2005, book critics jostled for room at the literary altar to offer praise.They called the book, about a child soldier in an unnamed African country, "brilliant," "astonishing," "riveting," "extraordinary," "searing," "electrifying" and "powerful."... summary from source:
The New York Observer Her Thieving Junkie Brother\'d5s Memoir of Veronica the Great
5/1/2007: 949 words, approx. 3 pagesTHICK AS THIEVES: A BROTHER, A SISTER—A TRUE STORY OF TWO TURBULENT LIVESBy Steve Geng Henry Holt, 292 pages, $24 Several of New Yorker satirist and editor Veronica Geng’s friends—among them Philip Roth, Jamaica Kincaid and Roy Blount Jr.—were sitting around in an Italian restaurant...
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Moira Ferguson
13,232 words, approx. 44 pages
In the following excerpt, Ferguson views colonialism as a central theme of the stories in At the Bottom of the River.
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Critical Essay by Diane Simmons
12,962 words, approx. 43 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 journey of mourning.”
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