| Jamaica Kincaid: Writing Memory, Writing Back to the Mother Contributor(s): Bouson, J. Brooks (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791465241 ISBN-13: 9780791465240 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2006 Annotation: Offers a new perspective on the psychological and affective dynamics of Jamaica Kincaid's fiction and nonfiction. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Caribbean & Latin American - Literary Criticism | American - African American - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 6.08" W x 8.98" (0.76 lbs) 252 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Haunted by the memories of her powerfully destructive mother, Jamaica Kincaid is a writer out of necessity. Born Elaine Potter Richardson, Kincaid grew up in the West Indies in the shadow of her deeply contemptuous and abusive mother, Annie Drew. Drawing heavily on Kincaid's many remarks on the autobiographical sources of her writings, J. Brooks Bouson investigates the ongoing construction of Kincaid's autobiographical and political identities. She focuses attention on what many critics find so enigmatic and what lies at the heart of Kincaid's fiction and nonfiction work: the mother mystery. Bouson demonstrates, through careful readings, how Kincaid uses her writing to transform her feelings of shame into pride as she wins the praise of an admiring critical establishment and an ever-growing reading public. |