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Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid

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Author 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
9094 words, approx. 30.3 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 filled...
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Biography of Jamaica Kincaid
5465 words, approx. 18.2 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 interview...
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Biography of Jamaica Kincaid
4415 words, approx. 14.7 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 interview...
 


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Lucy (1990) is a short novel by Jamaica Kincaid. (It could also be called a novella.) The story begins in medias res: the eponymous Lucy has come from the West Indies to the United States to be an au pair for a wealthy Caucasian family. The plot of the...


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Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid

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