| Description |
ix, 242 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-231) and index. |
| Contents |
When you think of me, think of my life -- I had embarked on something called self-invention : artistic beginnings in "Antigua crossings" and At the bottom of the river -- 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 -- 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 -- 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" -- 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 -- I shall never forget him because his life is the one I did not have : remembering her brother's failed life in My brother -- 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. |
| Subject |
Kincaid, Jamaica -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Women and literature -- Antigua -- History -- 20th century.
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Mothers and daughters in literature.
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Antigua -- In literature.
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Memory in literature.
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| ISBN |
0791465233 (alk. paper) |
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9780791465233 (alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 27194840X |
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YDXCP 2209873 |
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NZ1 8979371 |
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AU@ 000026401397 |
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