Jamaica Kincaid
Subtitle: writing memory, writing back to the mother
By: J. Brooks Bouson.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Kincaid, Jamaica -- Criticism and interpretation; Women and literature -- Antigua -- History -- 20th century; Mothers and daughters in literature; Memory in literature; Antiqua -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: When you think of me, think of my life; title: I had embarked on something called self-invention : artistic beginnings in "Antigua crossings" and At the bottom of the river; title: The way I became a writer was that my mother wrote my life for me and told it to me : living in the shadow of the mother in Annie John; title: As I looked at this sentence a great wave of shame came over me and I wept and wept : the art of memory, anger, and despair in Lucy; title: Imagine the bitterness and the shame in me as I tell you this : the political is personal in A small place and "On seeing England for the first time"; title: I would bear children but I would never be a mother to them : writing back to the contemptuous mother in The autobiography of my mother; title: I shall never forget him because his life is the one I did not have : remembering her brother's failed life in My brother; title: Like him and his own father before him, I have a line drawn through me : imagining the life of the absent father in Mr. Potter.