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Biography

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...
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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...
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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...
 


Quotations
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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...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Jamaica Kincaid Information
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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...


News and Journals
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AP News
Young author Iweala set for med school
2/12/2007: 933 words, approx. 3 pages
When 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."...
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The New York Observer
Her Thieving Junkie Brother\'d5s Memoir of Veronica the Great
5/1/2007: 949 words, approx. 3 pages
THICK 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...
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The New York Observer
March 30, \'d0 April 6, 2005
4/3/2005: 2,219 words, approx. 7 pages
Wednesday 30thMy goodness, my Guinness! Some lessons learned this week: We've given up on taking the subway, at least when it's raining ( Moby-Dick or no Moby-Dick, the delays get our rage on); keeping a scale in the apartment does not inspire; other people actually...
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The New York Observer
After His Tony Loss, How Fiennes Is Ralph?
6/18/2006: 3,195 words, approx. 11 pages
Julia Roberts performs each night in Three Days of Rain at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater on 45th Street. The audiences chanting her name can be heard through the walls all the way into the theater next door. That neighboring theater, the Booth, is where...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
14,749 words, approx. 49 pages
In the following essay, Paravisini-Gebert offers a thematic and stylistic analysis of the stories in At the Bottom of the River.
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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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