The autobiography of my mother
By: Jamaica Kincaid.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780374107314
Subjects: Women -- Dominican Republic -- Fiction; Dominican Republic -- Fiction
Description: The West Indian narrator vents her bitterness at the unhappy life fate dealt her--mother died in childbirth, father ignored her, stepmother tried to kill her, at school she had an abortion. Finally, she married a white doctor, but it was impossible for her to love him because he was a colonialist. She draws parallels with the despair of her country--Dominica--attributing it to the legacy of slavery. By the author of Lucy.