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| jamaica kincaid in history: A Small Place Jamaica Kincaid, 2000-04-28 A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . . So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up. Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: Narcissistic Narrative Linda Hutcheon, 2010-01-01 Linda Hutcheon, in this original study, examines the modes, forms and techniques of narcissistic fiction, that is, fiction which includes within itself some sort of commentary on its own narrative and/or linguistic nature. Her analysis is further extended to discuss the implications of such a development for both the theory of the novel and reading theory. Having placed this phenomenon in its historical context Linda Hutcheon uses the insights of various reader-response theories to explore the “paradox” created by metafiction: the reader is, at the same time, co-creator of the self-reflexive text and distanced from it because of its very self-reflexiveness. She illustrates her analysis through the works of novelists such as Fowles, Barth, Nabokov, Calvino, Borges, Carpentier, and Aquin. For the paperback edition of this important book a preface has been added which examines developments since first publication. Narcissistic Narrative was selected by Choice as one of the outstanding academic books for 1981–1982. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: Lucy Jamaica Kincaid, 2002-09-04 The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--available now in an e-book edition. Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to America to work as an au pair for a wealthy couple. She begins to notice cracks in their beautiful façade at the same time that the mysteries of own sexuality begin to unravel. Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new heroine who is destined to win a place of honor in contemporary fiction. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: My Brother Jamaica Kincaid, 1998-11-09 Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. My Brother is an unblinking record of a life that ended too early, and it speaks volumes about the difficult truths at the heart of all families. My Brother is a 1997 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: See Now Then Jamaica Kincaid, 2013-02-05 In See Now Then, the brilliant and evocative new novel from Jamaica Kincaid—her first in ten years—a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. This piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her characters—a mother, a father, and their two children, living in a small village in New England—as they move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future: for, as she writes, the present will be now then and the past is now then and the future will be a now then. Her characters, constrained by the world, despair in their domestic situations. But their minds wander, trying to make linear sense of what is, in fact, nonlinear. See Now Then is Kincaid's attempt to make clear what is unclear, and to make unclear what we assumed was clear: that is, the beginning, the middle, and the end. Since the publication of her first short-story collection, At the Bottom of the River, which was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Kincaid has demonstrated a unique talent for seeing beyond and through the surface of things. In See Now Then, she envelops the reader in a world that is both familiar and startling—creating her most emotionally and thematically daring work yet. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: My Garden (Book) Jamaica Kincaid, 2001-05-15 One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves. Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book) she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododendron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration -- seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet's at Giverny -- are subjected to intense scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up. My Garden (Book) is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the persons who tend them. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: A History of the African-American People (Proposed) by Strom Thurmond , 2013-12-20 “A truly funny sendup of the corrupt politics of academe, the publishing industry and politics, as well as a subtle but biting critique of racial ideology.” —Publishers Weekly This “hilarious high-concept satire” (Publishers Weekly), by the PEN/Faulkner finalist and acclaimed author of Telephone and Erasure, is a fictitious and satirical chronicle of South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond’s desire to pen a history of African-Americans—his and his aides’ belief being that he has done as much, or more, than any American to shape that history. An epistolary novel, The History follows the letters of loose cannon Congressional office workers, insane interns at a large New York publishing house and disturbed publishing executives, along with homicidal rival editors, kindly family friends, and an aspiring author named Septic. Strom Thurmond appears charming and open, mad and sure of his place in American history. “Outrageously funny . . . it could become a cult classic.” —Library Journal “I think Percival Everett is a genius. I’ve been a fan since his first novel . . . He’s a brilliant writer and so damn smart I envy him.” —Terry McMillan, New York Times-bestselling author of It’s Not All Downhill from Here “God bless Percival Everett, whose dozens of idiosyncratic books demonstrate a majestic indifference to literary trends, the market or his critics.”?The Wall Street Journal |
| jamaica kincaid in history: The Earth in Her Hands Jennifer Jewell, 2020-03-03 “An empowering and expertly curated look at the horticultural world.” —Gardens Illustrated In this beautiful and empowering book, Jennifer Jewell introduces 75 inspiring women. Working in wide-reaching fields that include botany, floral design, landscape architecture, farming, herbalism, and food justice, these influencers are creating change from the ground up. Profiled women include flower farmer Erin Benzakein; codirector of Soul Fire Farm Leah Penniman; plantswoman Flora Grubb; edible and cultural landscape designer Leslie Bennett; Caribbean-American writer and gardener Jamaica Kincaid; soil scientist Elaine Ingham; landscape designer Ariella Chezar; floral designer Amy Merrick, and many more. Rich with personal stories and insights, Jewell’s portraits reveal a devotion that transcends age, locale, and background, reminding us of the profound role of green growing things in our world—and our lives. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: An Analysis of Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place Giorgia Scribellito, 2017-04-22 |
| jamaica kincaid in history: Annie John Jamaica Kincaid, 1997-06 Annie John grows from a precocious, fearless, ten-year-old living in a Caribbean paradise into a young woman who realizes she must leave Antigua to escape her mother's shadow. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: Jamaica Kincaid’s Writings of History Antonia Purk, 2023-09-18 Jamaica Kincaid’s works consistently explore how colonial history affects contemporary everyday lives. Throughout her novels, short fiction, and non-fictional essays, Kincaid’s texts engage with history through its medial representations, which are starkly determined by colonial perspectives. This study examines the entanglements of temporalities in current perceptions of the past and how literary text intervenes in historical consciousness. With a focus on the media text, image, and the human body, the chapters of this book demonstrate how Kincaid’s poetics of impermanence counter colonial representations of history with strategies of ambiguity, repetition, and redirection. Kincaid’s texts repeat and revise aspects of colonial history – a process that decenters the totality of historical colonial ideology and replaces it with self-determined versions of the past through a multiplication of perspectives and voices. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: Talk Stories Jamaica Kincaid, 2002-01-09 From The Talk of the Town, Jamaica Kincaid's first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New York Talk Pieces is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for the New Yorker's Talk of the Town, composed during the time when she first came to the United States from Antigua, from 1978 to 1983. Kincaid found a unique voice, at once in sync with William Shawn's tone for the quintessential elite insider's magazine, and (though unsigned) all her own--wonderingly alive to the ironies and screwball details that characterized her adopted city. New York is a town that, in return, fast adopts those who embrace it, and in these early pieces Kincaid discovers many of its hilarious secrets and urban mannerisms. She meets Miss Jamaica, visiting from Kingston, and escorts the reader to the West Indian-American Day parade in Brooklyn; she sees Ed Koch don his Cheshire-cat smile and watches Tammy Wynette autograph a copy of Lattimore's Odyssey; she learns the worlds of publishing and partying, of fashion and popular music, and how to call a cauliflower a crudite. The book also records Kincaid's development as a young writer--the newcomer who sensitively records her impressions here takes root to become one of our most respected authors. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: Jamaica Kincaid Moira Ferguson, 1994 As a writer who has been quoted as saying she writes to save her life- that is she couldn't write, she would be a revolutionary- Antiguan novelist Jamaica Kincaid translates this passion into searing, exhilarating prose. Her weaving of history, autobiography, fiction, and polemic has won her a large readership. In this first book-length study of her work, Moira Ferguson examines all of Kincaid's writing up to 1992, focusing especially o their entwinement of personal and political identity. In doing so, she draws a parallel between the dynamics of the mother-daughter relationship in Kincaid's fiction and the more political relationship of the colonizer and the colonized. Ferguson calls this effect the doubled mother- a conception of motherhood as both colonial and biological. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: Mr. Potter Jamaica Kincaid, 2003-07-16 The story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home: Kincaid's most poetic and affecting novel to date (Robert Antoni, The Washington Post Book World) Jamaica Kincaid's first obssession, the island of Antigua, comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur who makes his living along the roads that pass through the only towns he has ever seen and the graveyard where he will be buried. The sun shines squarely overhead, the ocean lies on every side, and suppressed passion fills the air. Ignoring the legacy of his father, a poor fisherman, and his mother, who committed suicide, Mr. Potter struggles to live at ease amid his surroundings: to purchase a car, to have girlfriends, and to shake off the encumbrance of his daughters—one of whom will return to Antigua after he dies and tell his story with equal measures of distance and sympathy. In Mr. Potter, Kincaid breathes life into a figure unlike any other in contemporary fiction, an individual consciousness emerging gloriously out of an unexamined life. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: The Autobiography of My Mother Jamaica Kincaid, 1996-01-15 From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal, an unforgettable novel of one woman's courageous coming-of-age Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of a character, an account of one woman's inexorable evolution evoked in startling and magical poetry. Powerful, disturbing, stirring, Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, loses her mother to death the moment she is born and must find her way on her own. Kincaid takes us from Xuela's childhood in a home where she could hear the song of the sea to the tin-roofed room where she lives as a schoolgirl in the house of Jack Labatte, who becomes her first lover. Xuela develops a passion for the stevedore Roland, who steals bolts of Irish linen for her from the ships he unloads, but she eventually marries an English doctor, Philip Bailey. Xuela's is an intensely physical world, redolent of overripe fruit, gentian violet, sulfur, and rain on the road, and it seethes with her sorrow, her deep sympathy for those who share her history, her fear of her father, her desperate loneliness. But underlying all is the black room of the world that is Xuela's barrenness and motherlessness. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: Jamaica Kincaid Mary Ellen Snodgrass, 2008-07-23 Changing her name early in her career because her parents disapproved of her writing, Jamaica Kincaid crossed audiences to embrace feminist, American, postcolonial and world literature. This book offers an introduction and guided overview of her characters, plots, humor, symbols, and classic themes. Designed for students, fans, librarians, and teachers, the 84 A-to-Z entries combine commentary from interviewers, feminist historians, and book critics with numerous citations from primary and secondary sources and comparative literature. The companion features a chronology of Kincaid's life, West Indies heritage and works, and includes a character name chart. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: Committed to Memory Cheryl Finley, 2018-07-24 How an eighteenth-century engraving of a slave ship became a cultural icon of Black resistance, identity, and remembrance One of the most iconic images of slavery is a schematic wood engraving depicting the human cargo hold of a slave ship. First published by British abolitionists in 1788, it exposed this widespread commercial practice for what it really was—shocking, immoral, barbaric, unimaginable. Printed as handbills and broadsides, the image Cheryl Finley has termed the slave ship icon was easily reproduced, and by the end of the eighteenth century it was circulating by the tens of thousands around the Atlantic rim. Committed to Memory provides the first in-depth look at how this artifact of the fight against slavery became an enduring symbol of Black resistance, identity, and remembrance. Finley traces how the slave ship icon became a powerful tool in the hands of British and American abolitionists, and how its radical potential was rediscovered in the twentieth century by Black artists, activists, writers, filmmakers, and curators. Finley offers provocative new insights into the works of Amiri Baraka, Romare Bearden, Betye Saar, and many others. She demonstrates how the icon was transformed into poetry, literature, visual art, sculpture, performance, and film—and became a medium through which diasporic Africans have reasserted their common identity and memorialized their ancestors. Beautifully illustrated, Committed to Memory features works from around the world, taking readers from the United States and England to West Africa and the Caribbean. It shows how contemporary Black artists and their allies have used this iconic eighteenth-century engraving to reflect on the trauma of slavery and come to terms with its legacy. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: Caribbean Genesis Jana Evans Braziel, 2009-01-05 Philosophical exploration of Jamaica Kincaid’s entire literary oeuvre. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: What's Love Got to Do with It? Denise Brennan, 2004-05-14 DIVAn ethnographic case study of sex tourism in the Dominican Republic, showing how the sex trade is linked to economic and cultural globalization./div |
| jamaica kincaid in history: Among Flowers Jamaica Kincaid, 2011-06-15 In this delightful hybrid of a book—part memoir and part travel journal—the bestselling author takes us deep into the mountains of Nepal with a trio of botanist friends in search of native Himalayan plants that will grow in her Vermont garden. Alighting from a plane in the dramatic Annapurna Valley, the ominous signs of Nepal's Maoist guerrillas are all around—an alarming presence that accompanies the travelers throughout their trek. Undaunted, the group sets off into the mountains with Sherpas and bearers, entering an exotic world of spectacular landscapes, vertiginous slopes, isolated villages, herds of yaks, and giant rhododendron, thirty feet tall. The landscape and flora and so much else of what Kincaid finds in the Himalaya—including fruit bats, colorful Buddhist prayer flags, and the hated leeches that plague much of the trip—are new to her, and she approaches it all with an acute sense of wonder and a deft eye for detail. In beautiful, introspective prose, Kincaid intertwines the harrowing Maoist encounters with exciting botanical discoveries, fascinating daily details, and lyrical musings on gardens, nature, home, and family. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: Island People Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, 2016-11-22 A masterwork of travel literature and of history: voyaging from Cuba to Jamaica, Puerto Rico to Trinidad, Haiti to Barbados, and islands in between, Joshua Jelly-Schapiro offers a kaleidoscopic portrait of each society, its culture and politics, connecting this region’s common heritage to its fierce grip on the world’s imagination. From the moment Columbus gazed out from the Santa María's deck in 1492 at what he mistook for an island off Asia, the Caribbean has been subjected to the misunderstandings and fantasies of outsiders. Running roughshod over the place, they have viewed these islands and their inhabitants as exotic allure to be consumed or conquered. The Caribbean stood at the center of the transatlantic slave trade for more than three hundred years, with societies shaped by mass migrations and forced labor. But its people, scattered across a vast archipelago and separated by the languages of their colonizers, have nonetheless together helped make the modern world—its politics, religion, economics, music, and culture. Jelly-Schapiro gives a sweeping account of how these islands’ inhabitants have searched and fought for better lives. With wit and erudition, he chronicles this “place where globalization began,” and introduces us to its forty million people who continue to decisively shape our world. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: Jamaica Kincaid¿s ¿A Small Place¿. An Analysis Lea Williwald, 2021 Essay in the subject Literature - Basics, language: English, abstract: The reflective analysis of Kincaid's observations, ideas and approaches as well as literary style will seek to elaborate the dynamics that dominate the global economy, as well as the economies of singular countries. Furthermore, the parallels between colonization and globalization shall be highlighted. This examination will effectively lead to an answer to the question of whether Kincaid seeks retribution and reparations or complete independence from the Political West and her former as well as current oppressors. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: A Patriot's History of the United States Larry Schweikart, Michael Patrick Allen, 2004-12-29 For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: Beautiful Crescent Joan Garvey, Mary Lou Widmer, 2012-11-05 A brief history for New Orleans' greatest admirers. This concise history of the Crescent City contains chapters covering the Mississippi River, the city's founding, European rule, and more, updated with expanded jazz and African American sections. It is a must for every library and home, and for those who love New Orleans and its rich history. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: The Romantic Revolution Tim Blanning, 2011-08-02 “A splendidly pithy and provocative introduction to the culture of Romanticism.”—The Sunday Times “[Tim Blanning is] in a particularly good position to speak of the arrival of Romanticism on the Euorpean scene, and he does so with a verve, a breadth, and an authority that exceed every expectation.”—National Review From the preeminent historian of Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries comes a superb, concise account of a cultural upheaval that still shapes sensibilities today. A rebellion against the rationality of the Enlightenment, Romanticism was a profound shift in expression that altered the arts and ushered in modernity, even as it championed a return to the intuitive and the primitive. Tim Blanning describes its beginnings in Rousseau’s novel La Nouvelle Héloïse, which placed the artistic creator at the center of aesthetic activity, and reveals how Goethe, Goya, Berlioz, and others began experimenting with themes of artistic madness, the role of sex as a psychological force, and the use of dreamlike imagery. Whether unearthing the origins of “sex appeal” or the celebration of accessible storytelling, The Romantic Revolution is a bold and brilliant introduction to an essential time whose influence would far outlast its age. “Anyone with an interest in cultural history will revel in the book’s range and insights. Specialists will savor the anecdotes, casual readers will enjoy the introduction to rich and exciting material. Brilliant artistic output during a time of transformative upheaval never gets old, and this book shows us why.”—The Washington Times “It’s a pleasure to read a relatively concise piece of scholarship of so high a caliber, especially expressed as well as in this fine book.”—Library Journal |
| jamaica kincaid in history: The Dominica Story Lennox Honychurch, 1984 |
| jamaica kincaid in history: Panic in a Suitcase Yelena Akhtiorskaya, 2015-08-04 “A virtuosic debut [and] a wry look at immigrant life in the global age.” —Vogue Having left Odessa for Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, with a sense of finality, the Nasmertov family has discovered that the divide between the old world and the new is not nearly as clear-cut as they had imagined. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, returning is just a matter of a plane ticket, and the Russian-owned shops in their adopted neighborhood stock even the most obscure comforts of home. Pursuing the American Dream once meant giving up everything, but does the dream still work if the past refuses to grow distant and mythical, remaining alarmingly within reach? If the Nasmertov parents can afford only to look forward, learning the rules of aspiration, the family’s youngest, Frida, can’t help looking back—and asking far too many questions. Yelena Akhtiorskaya’s exceptional debut has been hailed not only as the great novel of Brighton Beach but as a “breath of fresh air … [and] a testament to Akhtiorskaya’s wit, generosity, and immense talent as a young American author” (NPR). |
| jamaica kincaid in history: Mastery, Tyranny, and Desire Trevor Burnard, 2009-11-17 Eighteenth-century Jamaica, Britain's largest and most valuable slave-owning colony, relied on a brutal system of slave management to maintain its tenuous social order. Trevor Burnard provides unparalleled insight into Jamaica's vibrant but harsh African and European cultures with a comprehensive examination of the extraordinary diary of plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood. Thistlewood's diary, kept over the course of forty years, describes in graphic detail how white rule over slaves was predicated on the infliction of terror on the bodies and minds of slaves. Thistlewood treated his slaves cruelly even while he relied on them for his livelihood. Along with careful notes on sugar production, Thistlewood maintained detailed records of a sexual life that fully expressed the society's rampant sexual exploitation of slaves. In Burnard's hands, Thistlewood's diary reveals a great deal not only about the man and his slaves but also about the structure and enforcement of power, changing understandings of human rights and freedom, and connections among social class, race, and gender, as well as sex and sexuality, in the plantation system. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: Jamaica Kincaid and Caribbean Double Crossings American Comparative Literature Association, 2006 Original versions of these contributions were presented at the 2002 conference of the American Comparative Literature Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: A Concise History of the Caribbean B. W. Higman, 2021-05-27 A compelling account of Caribbean history from colonization to slavery and revolution, through the tumult of hurricanes and climate change. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: Jamaica Kincaid Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert, 1999 Beginning with a biographical chapter, this text traces the development of Kincaid's work. Each of the novels and the collection of short stories is discussed in a separate chapter that includes sections on plot, character, and theme. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: An Analysis of Jamaica Kincaid's a Small Place Giorgia Scribellito, 2014-07-31 This book analyses critically Jamaica Kincaid's book A Small Place. It considers the biography of the author, the history of Antigua and literature by Caribbean women. It also analyses the themes of the book and it situates them in the context of Caribbean and postcolonial literature. It also analyses the Language used by Kincaid and its meaning. It is really an analysis of Kincaid's book and of its importance for postcolonial, Caribbean and women's studies literature. The main themes of the book are Caribbean women, history, colonialism and postcolonialism. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: Understanding Jamaica Kincaid Justin D. Edwards, 2007 Understanding Jamaica Kincaid introduces readers to the prizewinning author best known for the novels Annie John, Lucy, and The Autobiography of My Mother. Justin D. Edwards surveys Jamaica Kincaid's life, career, and major works of fiction and nonfiction to identify and discuss her recurring interests in familial relations, Caribbean culture, and the aftermath of colonialism and exploitation. In addition to examining the haunting prose, rich detail, and personal insight that have brought Kincaid widespread praise, Edwards also identifies and analyzes the novelist's primary thematic concerns - the flow of power and the injustices faced by people undergoing social, economic, and political change. Edwards chronicles Kincaid's childhood in Antigua, her development as a writer, and her early journalistic work as published in the New Yorker and other magazines. In separate chapters he provides critical appraisals of Kincaid's early novels; her works of nonfiction, including My Brother and A Small Place; and her more recent novels, including Mr. Potter. colonization and neocolonization and warns her readers about the dire consequences of inequality in the era of globalization. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: Gardening in the Tropics Olive Senior, 2009 Gardening in the Tropics contains a rich Caribbean world in poems offered to readers everywhere. Olive Senior's rich vein of humour can turn wry and then sharp in satire of colour-consciousness, class-consciousness and racism. But her predominant tone is the verbal equivalent of a pair of wide-open arms. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: Grow Now Emily Murphy, 2022-02 Homeowners are looking for actionable ways to help conserve the environment, and this hopeful, heartfelt guide offers them specific guidance on how to do so in their own home gardens. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: School Days Patrick Chamoiseau, 1997-01-01 School Days (Chemin-d’Ecole) is a captivating narrative based on Patrick Chamoiseau’s childhood in Fort-de-France, Martinique. It is a revelatory account of the colonial world that shaped one of the liveliest and most creative voices in French and Caribbean literature today. Through the eyes of the boy Chamoiseau, we meet his severe, Francophile teacher, a man intent upon banishing all remnants of Creole from his students’ speech. This domineering man is succeeded by an equally autocratic teacher, an Africanist and proponent of “Negritude.” Along the way we are also introduced to Big Bellybutton, the class scapegoat, whose tales of Creole heroes and heroines, magic, zombies, and fantastic animals provide a fertile contrast to the imported French fairy tales told in school. In prose punctuated by Creolisms and ribald humor, Chamoiseau infuses the universal terrors, joys, and disappointments of a child’s early school days with the unique experiences of a Creole boy forced to confront the dominant culture in a colonial school. School Days mixes understanding with laughter, knowledge with entertainment—in ways that will fascinate and delight readers of all ages. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: If I Could Write this in Fire Michelle Cliff, 2008 In her first book-length collection of nonfiction, Cliff interweaves reflections on her life in Jamaica, England, and the United States with a powerful and sustained critique of racism, homophobia, and social injustice. If I Could Write This in Fire begins by tracing her transatlantic journey from Jamaica to England, coalescing around a graceful, elliptical account of her childhood friendship with Zoe, who is dark-skinned and from an impoverished, rural background; the divergent life courses that each is forced to take; and the class and color tensions that shape their lives as adults. In other essays and poems, Cliff writes about the discovery of her distinctive, diasporic literary voice, recalls her wild colonial girlhood and sexual awakening, and recounts traveling through an American landscape of racism, colonialism, and genocide - a history of violence embodied in seemingly innocuous souvenirs and tourist sites. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: Insurrection: Holding History Robert O'Hara, 2015-04-10 The first publication of Insurrection, a remarkable debut of a major new African-American theatre artist. The playwright won the distinguished Oppenheim Award from Newsday for best new playwright of 1997. Insurrection is a chilling exploration of the roots of the Nat Turner slave insurrection through the eyes of a contemporary black man who is transported back through time with his grandfather. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: Annie, Gwen, Lilly, Pam, and Tulip Jamaica Kincaid, Eric Fischl, 1989 A lovely story about girls coming of age written by the West Indian writer, Jamaica Kincaid, and illustrated by the American painter and printmaker, Eric Fischl. 9 color reproductions. |
| jamaica kincaid in history: The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction Alan Jacobs, 2011-05-26 In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way. In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers, reading is alive and well in America. There are millions of devoted readers supporting hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers. Oprah's Book Club is hugely influential, and a recent NEA survey reveals an actual uptick in the reading of literary fiction. Jacobs's interactions with his students and the readers of his own books, however, suggest that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion and discernment. Many have absorbed the puritanical message that reading is, first and foremost, good for you--the intellectual equivalent of eating your Brussels sprouts. For such people, indeed for all readers, Jacobs offers some simple, powerful, and much needed advice: read at whim, read what gives you delight, and do so without shame, whether it be Stephen King or the King James Version of the Bible. In contrast to the more methodical approach of Mortimer Adler's classic How to Read a Book (1940), Jacobs offers an insightful, accessible, and playfully irreverent guide for aspiring readers. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of approaching literary fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, and the book explores everything from the invention of silent reading, reading responsively, rereading, and reading on electronic devices. Invitingly written, with equal measures of wit and erudition, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction will appeal to all readers, whether they be novices looking for direction or old hands seeking to recapture the pleasures of reading they first experienced as children. |
Daughterly Haunting and Historical Traumas: Toni Morrison’s …
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Triumph of Ambivalence: Jamaica Kincaid's1 The - JSTOR
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Race, Literacy, and Postcoloniality in Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Pott
nary role played by the mother in Kincaid’s fiction, see Frank Birbalsingh, “Jamaica Kincaid: From Antigua to America,” in Frontiers of Caribbean Literature in English, ed. & intro. Frank ...
RE-CONCEPTUALIZATION OF RACE AND AGENCY IN JAMAICA KINCAID…
IN JAMAICA KINCAID'S THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY MOTHER Izabella Penier The Academy of Humanities and Economics (AHE), Łódź Abstract: Jamaica Kincaid, arguably the most popular Caribbean woman writer living in the USA, has produced many of her bestsellers by dissecting her personal and familial history.
JAMAICA KINCAID, CARIBBEAN SPACE AND LIVING …
Jamaica Kincaid, Caribbean Space and Living Dislocations 11 . Wagadu (2018) ISSN: 1545- 6196 . Examining the trajectory of diaspora and migration discourses in order to situate our discussion we can say briefly that while the discourse of diaspora has become a popular academic consideration in the late 20. th. century and into the 21. st
Misusing Canonical Intertexts: Jamaica Kincaid, Wordsworth and …
Jamaica Kincaid, in her novel Lucy, is a contemporary reader of Wordsworth's role in curricular culture with her acute intertextual interrogation of his famous lyric ... solved relationship to English literary and cultural traditions that inform Kincaid's history. Wordsworth functions metonymically for the attitude she names "the En-
Antonia Purk Jamaica Kincaid’s Writings of History - De Gruyter
Jamaica Kincaid’s Writings of History A Poetics of Impermanence. Dissertation accepted at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Erfurt in 2021. Supported by Open Access funds of the University of Erfurt. ISBN 978-3-11-101861-4 e-ISBN (PDF) 978-3-11-102750-0
Graphing and Grafting in Jamaica Kincaid s Garden Memoirs
understand Kincaid’s foregrounding of otherness, discomfort and global underground memory in My Garden (Book): (1999) and Among Flowers, A Walk in the Himalaya (2005). Graphing and grafting become privileged metaphors for Kincaid’s work as an Afro-Caribbean. Jamaica Kincaid wrote two books on gardens, plants and flowers: My Garden (Book):
Reterritorialization in A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid: A ...
Jamaica Kincaid: A Postcolonial Eco-Critical Study Munazza Majeed1, Uzma Imtiaz1, and Akifa Imtiaz1 Abstract This article intends to understand how the postcolonial ecocritical writers attempt to reterritorialize their land, its history, and its culture by underscoring the hazards of tourism.
Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy as a Narrative of Exile and Identity - SSRN
Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy as a Narrative of Exile and Identity Sayed Mohammed Youssef Department of English Language and Literature, College of Languages and Translation, ... a personal history of her mother when she was a little girl at school. On her way to school, her mother would go through a rain forest and cross a couple of small rivers ...
POSTCOLONIAL HAUNTIN GS: GHOSTLY PRESENCE IN JAMAICA KINCAID…
Jamaica Kincaid’s novel Autobiography of My Mother The tells the story of loss, abandonment, survival, and resistance. A creolized subject (daughter of a Carib mother and a half ... history of the island. Kincaid’s “disguise” of the novel as an autobiography engenders a kind of grafting that
and Mother-Daughter Bonding in Jamaica - JSTOR
The Bildungsroman, then, has a perceived history of only turning the boy into the man, not the girl into the woman.4 The fact that Kincaid's viewpoint character is a girl forces the Bildungsroman structure to confront its masculine critical history. I read such a female-quest confrontation by way of the novel's roman-tic themes and symbols.
Localism Unrooted: Gardening in the Prose of Jamaica Kincaid …
proves a method of interpreting Kincaid's history, are Kincaid'sown feel-ings about the novel's daffodil scene: “I hope it makes people read the poem.” Her hope suggests a different end, pointing us back to Wordsworth's 1800 lyric “I wandered lonely as a cloud” rather than her useofit,notjustbecause,asshesays,“You can'tbegin ...
Girl Jamaica Kincaid Analysis (Download Only)
Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl" is a deceptively short story that packs an immense punch. Through its unique narrative structure, its exploration of the complex mother-daughter dynamic, its subtle ... a history of violence embodied in seemingly innocuous souvenirs and tourist sites. girl jamaica kincaid analysis: Mr. Potter Jamaica Kincaid, 2003-07-16 ...
Performing Delusional Evil: Jamaica Kincaid’s The ... - Springer
Performing Delusional Evil: Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother Rebecca Romdhani David Scott, in his preface titled “Evil Beyond Repair” in Small Axe ... World slavery in the direction of moral and reparatory history” (vii, italics in original). For him, moral history “is a history-of-the-present of past ...
DISSIMULATING WOMEN: JAMAICA KINCAID’S ANNIE JOHN …
these concepts. I will compare Kincaid’s reception to that of Michelle Cliff, a writer who is dealing with issues similar to Kincaid’s, but who is more accepted by the critical community. I will reconcile the positions on the above concepts and clarify how Kincaid’s engagement of these concepts demonstrates the usefulness of postmodernism
The Conflict Factors of Caribbean Female Writers’ Writing: …
Focusing on Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John Mia Kim1 1 Professor, Superstar College, Jeonju University, Korea, kmia14@nate.com Abstract: The Caribbean people had to move all over the world, and the Caribbean women writers’s writing was prone to include the phenomenon of diaspora based on their real life stories. They tried to
Historicising Neocolonial Globalisation and Political Revolution ...
Kincaid can be said to speak from the position of multiple marginalities and her vitriolic attack is also directed at the patriarchies which once sustained colonialism and which now perpet-uate neocolonialism. In particular, this chapter focuses on Kincaid’s resistance to the history of neocolonial globalisation and the global
Reclaiming Home, Remembering Motherhood, Rewriting History
the unspeakable history of Ruby.”2 Predicated on a protective policy of exclusion and a fierce maintenance of pure eight-rock blood lines, Ruby’s history comes at the cost of physical and psychological violence and depends upon the safeguarding of a legacy of entitlement even as it fuels an ever-increasing illusion of community and belonging.
RITE OF PASSAGE IN DIASPORA: JAMAICA KINCAID'S LUCY …
1970s, reinvented herself as the writer Jamaica Kincaid. (Simmons 5) Central to Simmons's argument is that Lucy and Kincaid, in many respects, have much in common. They share one of their very names: the protagonist's full name is Lucy Josephine Potter and Kincaid's original name is Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson.
POSTCOLONIAL HAUNTIN GS: GHOSTLY PRESENCE IN JAMAICA KINCAID…
IN JAMAICA KINCAID’S THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY MOTHER . Simone A. James Alexander . Seton Hall University . Contact: Simone A. James Alexander, Seton Hall University ... Xuela’s traumatic birth resonates with the traumatic colonial history of the Caribbean, namely Dominica. Thus, Xuela’s personal account of her life experiences echoes the ...
Kincaid_Girl - WordPress.com
by Jamaica Kincaid Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry; don’t walk barehead in the hot sun; cook pumpkin fritters 1 in very hot sweet oil; soak your little cloths right after you take them off; when buying cotton to make yourself a nice ...
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IN HISTORY by Jamaica Kincaid What to call the thing that happened to me and all who look like me? Should I call it history? If so, what should history mean to someone like me? Should it be an idea, should it be an open wound and each breath I take in and expel healing and opening the wound again and again, over and over, or is it a moment that
Lucy Jamaica Kincaid - John Richmond
Lucy Jamaica Kincaid,2002-09-04 The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--available now in an e-book edition. Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to America to work as an au pair for a wealthy couple. She begins to notice cracks in their beautiful façade at the same time that the mysteries of own ...
Lesson Plan: Grades 9-12 Colonialism, Identity, History
a name. In her essay “In History,” Jamaica Kincaid explores the power to name. As the world continues to become globalized, it is important for students to consider how things are named, and why it is critical to know about the history of names and naming. 1. Ask your students to read the essay “In History” (1997) by Jamaica Kincaid.
INTIMATE IN MY 6ARDEN(B00K) - JSTOR
252 JAMAICA KINCAID'S PRACTICAL POLITICS OF THE INTIMATE is evidence in [them] of a struggle between those themes that are close to Kincaid's heart - genocide, colonialism, cultural erasure, history - and a garden-writing tradition that is in many ways a closed, self-absorbed world" (1999, 40). Here the critic constructs an opposition between Kin-
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In Jamaica Kincaid's provocative and lyrically potent work "A Small Place," the reader is invited to traverse the unvarnished reality of Antigua, a paradisiacal island burdened by the scars of colonialism and persistent exploitation. With piercing clarity, Kincaid dissects the facade of tropical idylls to expose the stark dichotomy
A Feminist Narratological Study of Jamaica Kincaid’s
applied to Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother (1996) with a special reference to the use of language in the narrative discourse as a powerful tool to subvert the colonizer’s power.
Counter-Travel Narrative of Resistance: An Analysis of Jamaica Kincaid ...
Analysis of Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place as a Counter –Travel Narrative Sherin M.Johnson, Meenu. B Abstract: This paper analyses Jamaica Kincaid’s nonfiction ... Antigua's colonial history and tourism, and anger as the predominant mood of deployment (Moro 3). In the beginning of A Small Place, Kincaid addresses the reader ...
Anger in a Small Place: Jamaica - JSTOR
History, Art, and Self in the Work ofW. R R Du Bois (Georgia 1994), Alice Walker: An Annotated Bibliography (with Erma Banks, Garland 1989), and Fingering the Jagged Grain: Tradition and Form in Recent Black Fiction (Georgia 1986). He is now working on a study of history in contemporary African American narrative and co-editing a collection of
No beginning, no end: The legacy of absence in Jamaica …
No beginning, no end: The legacy of absence in Jamaica Kincaid’s The autobiography of my mother . Abstract . A sea is large. If placed in the middle of it, you will feel the pull and tug of waves, each mounting swell adding volume to what is before and beneath you. Jamaica Kincaid’s writing can be a sea. Her narratives
“Fighting Mad to Tell Her Story”: Madness, Rage, and ... - Springer
and Jamaica Kincaid Denise deCaires Narain The MadwoMan in The aTTic The extensive scholarship on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) has established it as a canonical text with a pivotal place in debates about gen-der, writing, and feminism. Jean Rhys’s response to it, …
'Gardenworthy': Rerouting colonial botany in Jamaica Kincaid's …
in Jamaica Kincaid's Among Flowers: A Walk In the Himalaya fill Didur Plants are as diverse aspeople. Some are polite, attractiveguestsyouinvite intoyourdomain; ... Thetensionbetweencritique of and complicitywith colonial attitudes toward botanical history that characterizes Kincaid'sreflections inMy Garden intensifiesinheraccount ofherplanthunting
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8 Mar 2024 · Jamaica Kincaid’s Writings of History A Poetics of Impermanence. Dissertation accepted at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Erfurt in 2021. Supported by Open Access funds of the University of Erfurt. ISBN 978-3-11-101861-4 …
“SO YOU ARE FROM THE ISLANDS?” THE ARTICULATION OF …
(Kincaid 2002:56) The white woman’s insensitive remark and Lucy’s never-uttered angry reply show that the bildungsroman unfolds against the backdrop of an imperial past and its long-lasting consequences, reaching well into the post-colonial present. Like Jamaica Kincaid herself, Lucy, her fictional alter ego, is part of the twentieth-
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Jamaica Kincaid A Small Place Jamaica Kincaid was born in St. John's, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, ... of those new books about economic history, one of those books explaining how the West (meaning Europe and …
Family Matters in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My …
Family Matters in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother By: Alexandra Schultheis Schultheis, Alexandra (2001) ... it is imbrued with the history of colonialism and slavery. The story also draws on Kincaid’s own life (as does all of her fiction) and …
CI Jamaica Kincaid - SALEM PRESS
The “Popular” Reception of Jamaica Kincaid’s Writings: 1996–2012, Robert C. Evans 63 Jamaica Kincaid’s Reception in The New York Times: 1990–2013, Robert C. Evans 82 Comparing Jamaica Kincaid with Other Caribbean Writers, Martin Kich 96 Jamaica Kincaid’s Talk Stories: Their Own Traits and Their Relevance to
Disguised Subjugation as Education: Colonial and Maternal
Jamaica Kincaid’s harsh critique of colonial narratives and pedagogy in her writings ... of excavation of history (p. 17). Helen Tiffin (1993), on the other hand, suggests that Kincaid’s novel explores possible ways of retrieval of an erased body under the colonial
Forms of Prose: Short Stories UNIT 4 ‘ON SEEING ENGLAND
First Time’ –Jamaica Kincaid imperative to control their mind. This was achieved by showing that their language, history, culture, religion were inferior. This is what Jamaica Kincaid is rebelling against in this essay. 4.2 JAMAICA KINCAID: A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE The Black writer Jamaica Kincaid was born in 1949 as Elaine Potter Richardson
Diasporic Crisis of Acculturation in Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy
novel LUCY, written by Caribbean author Jamaica Kincaid who now lives in the United States. The term “acculturation” describes the cultural modification of an individual or group of people by adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture and also a merging of cultures as a result of prolonged contact. The
Jamaica Kincaid Callaloo Vol. 24, No. 2, The Best of Callalo Prose: …
IN HISTORY by Jamaica Kincaid What to call the thing that happened to me and all who look like me? Should I call it history? If so, what should history mean to someone like me? Should it be an idea, should it be an open wound and each breath I take in and expel healing and opening the wound again and again, over and over, or is it a moment that ...
What I Have Been Doing Lately – Jamaica Kincaid - WordPress.com
What I Have Been Doing Lately – Jamaica Kincaid What I have been doing lately: I was lying in bed and the doorbell rang. I ran down-stairs. Quick. I opened the door. There was no one there. I stepped outside. Either it was drizzling or there was a lot of dust in the air and the dust was damp. I stuck out my tongue and
Jamaica Kincaid - University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson, in 1949 in St. John’s, Antigua. As an only child, Kin-caid maintained a close relationship with her mother until the age of nine, when the first of her three broth-ers were born. The growing size of the family not only brought about a “keener sense of their poverty” but
“And the One Doesn‟t Stir without the Other‟‟ Relationships in Jamaica …
Through such autobiographical writings, these women write themselves into history. This study employs a psychoanalytic and feminist analysis of this “great unwritten story” (Rich, 1986, p. 225) where the two disciplines engage and enrich each other. This will be explored in „the life writings‟ of Jamaica Kincaid‟s (b.1949) The
RITE OF PASSAGE IN DIASPORA: JAMAICA KINCAID'S LUCY …
1970s, reinvented herself as the writer Jamaica Kincaid. (Simmons 5) Central to Simmons's argument is that Lucy and Kincaid, in many respects, have much in common. They share one of their very names: the protagonist's full name is Lucy Josephine Potter and Kincaid's original name is Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson.
Imaginary Homelands in Jamaica Kincaid's Narratives of …
ing Genre: Jamaica Kincaid and the Bildungsroman," I've tried to understand how Kincaid has modified the conventions of the European novel of development, to offer her own counternarrative to "progressive development" and "coherent identity." Now I want to focus primarily on Lucy to continue to explore Jamaica Kincaid's use
An Interview with Jamaica Kincaid - JSTOR
WITH JAMAICA KINCAID Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson in 1949 on the island of Antigua. At seventeen she was sent to Westchester, New York, to work as an au pair to help support her family. Later on she studied photography at the New School and attended Franconia College in New Hampshire. In 1973 she changed her name to Jamaica ...
Autobiography, Time and the Palimpsest in Jamaica Kincaid’s See …
Keywords: Jamaica Kincaid, autobiography, (auto)pathography, post-colonial palimp-sest, trauma, narrative temporality 1. Introduction: Limit Case Autobiographies and the Metaphor of the Palimpsest Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then, published in 2013, is the second novel the West Indian author sets outside her birthplace.
Plotting Desire between Girls: Jamaica Kincaid’s At the ... - Springer
Jamaica Kincaid’s At the Bottom of the River 93 served as the basis of At the Bottom of the River (1978), Annie John (1983), Lucy (1990), and The Autobiography of My Mother (1996). Annie John is in many ways a rewriting of At the Bottom of the River. Lucy can be seen to pick up where AnnieJohnends, as it follows an Antiguan girl’s young adulthood as an au pair in the United …
