World Literature Today, June 22nd, 1994
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 memory and partly a dream, and represents a state of wholeness that is unchangeable and undivisible.
At heart Jamaica Kincaid's work is not about the charm of a Caribbean childhood, though her first and best-known novel, Annie John (1983), may leave this impression. Nor is it about colonialism, though her angry, book...
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