Contributor
Mickle, Mildred R. editor.
ImprintIpswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc. ; Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2021]
Imprint2021
Descriptionxxxix, 218 pages ; 24 cm.
Note:About this volume / Mildred R. Mickle -- Building a reputation: Jamaica Kincaid in the 1980s / Robert C. Evans -- Jamaica Kincaid: biographical sketch / Mildred R. Mickle -- Jamaica Kincaid in the constellation of womanist literature / Tahirah Joyce Walker -- Kincaid speaks: a series of interviews and responses to audience questions / Robert C. Evans -- The aesthetics of postcoloniality, spirituality, and diaspora: history, geography, memory, and restoration in The heart of redness, Mama Day, Praisesong for the widow, Beloved, and "The disturbances of the garden," / Tomeiko Ashford Carter -- Critical essays on Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John and Lucy, 1985-2017 / Kelley Jeans -- The "popular" reception of Jamaica Kincaid's writings: 1996-2012 / Robert C. Evans -- Jamaica Kincaid's reception in The New York Times: 1990-2013 / Robert C. Evans -- Comparing Jamaica Kincaid with other Caribbean writers / Martin Kich -- Jamaica Kincaid's Talk stories: their own traits and their relevance to her fiction / Robert C. Evans -- An outsider-within cross-examines white liberalism in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy / Kirstin Ruth Bratt -- Who we are in what they say: an exploration of identity in memoir using Jamaica Kincaid's My brother / Abandon GawinWaya Shuman -- An expansion of womanist literature in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy and The autobiography of my mother / Tahirah Joyce Walker -- Re-examination of children's literature: do we keep Histoire de Babar, or replace it with Party: a mystery / Megan Pitz -- Kincaid's resistance to labels / Kirstin Ruth Bratt -- Chronology of Jamaica Kincaid's life -- Works by Jamaica Kincaid.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-206) and index.
Note:"This volume explores the key works of the award-winning Caribbean-American author, Jamaica Kincaid. Originally from St. Johns, Antigua, Kincaid emigrated to America to study, and has published a variety of Caribbean-centered fiction and non-fiction. She explores a number of themes in her work, including colonialism, gender, sexuality, mother-daughter relationships, and racism. Kincaid's works include See Now Then (2013), Mr. Potter (2002), The Autobiography of My Mother (1996), and Lucy (1990)."
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