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Annie
John |
Jamaica Kincaid beautifully delineates hatred and fear,
because she knows they are often a step away from love and
obsession. At the start of Annie John, her 10-year-old
heroine is engulfed in family happiness and safety. Though
Annie loves her father, she is all eyes for her mother. When
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Lucy |
Jamaica Kincaid's most beguiling and powerful work to date.
Nineteen-year-old Lucy comes to America from the West Indies
to work for a couple and their four children. Almost at once,
Lucy begins to see cracks in the fascade of this handsome,
rich, and seemingly happy family. Read
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The
Autobiography of My Mother |
"My mother died at the moment I was born, and so for
my whole life there was nothing standing between myself and
eternity," writes Jamaica Kincaid in this disturbing,
compelling novel set on the island of Dominica. Born to a
doomed Carib woman and a Scottish African policeman of increasing...
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At
the Bottom of the River |
A collection of short fiction by the author of Lucy
features ten stories that reflect Kincaid's memories of her
Caribbean childhood and its world of family, manners, and
landscape. Read
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A
Small Place |
Born and raised in Antigua, Jamaica Kincaid is angry and
frustrated with the white people who dominated the land and
native people of her birthplace. In this thought-provoking
essay, she appeals to the reader/tourist to look beyond the
beautiful blues of the ocean and into the local people's lives,...
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Jamaica
Kincaid - An interview with the author archived at Salonmagazine.com's
website.
Jamaica
Kincaid - Biography, list of major themes, suggested readings,
and links.
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