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Jamaica Kincaid

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A Small Place Summary

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid is an opinionated essay cleverly disguised as a novel. There are no acting characters, nor is there a plot. The narrator's voice gives her opinions of the many events and difficulties that have happened to the natives of the island of Antigua. A Small Place is a subjective description of the of government corruption and the lack of concern that the people of one nation...

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Jamaica Kincaid Biographies (6)

Jamaica Kincaid

2,676 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

3,503 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

4,414 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

9,061 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

Jamaica Kincaid

5,418 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

3,183 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

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