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Jamaica Kincaid : writing memory, writing back to the mother
- Title
- Jamaica Kincaid : writing memory, writing back to the mother / J. Brooks Bouson.
- Author
- Bouson, J. Brooks.
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005.
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- Description
- ix, 242 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- 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 -- "I am writing for solace" : seeking solace in writing, gardening, and domestic life.
- Call Number
- Sc E 05-1094
- ISBN
- 0791465233 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004027305
- OCLC
- 57010130
- Author
- Bouson, J. Brooks.
- Title
- Jamaica Kincaid : writing memory, writing back to the mother / J. Brooks Bouson.
- Imprint
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-231) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 05-1094JFE 07-4287