1. Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid. Biography. 1997. Available http//www.mg.co.za/mg/books/kincaid.htm (mother.jpg) Kincaid, Jamaica. A Small Place. New York Penguin, 1988. http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Kincaid.html

Jamaica Kincaid Biography Major Themes "I was always being told I should be something, and then my whole upbringing was something I was not: it was English." (Cudjoe 219) "Antigua is a small place, a small island...It was settled by Christopher Columbus in 1493. Not too long after, it was settled by human rubbish from Europe, who used enslaved by noble and exalted human beings from Africa...to satisfy their desire for wealth and power, to feel better about their own miserable existence, so that they could be less lonely and empty- a European disease" (80-81). Antigua became self-governing in 1967, but did not achieve the status of an independent nation within the Commonwealth until 1981. Within the structure of the British educational system imposed upon Antiguans, Kincaid grew to "detest everything about England, except the literature" (Vorda 79). She felt first-hand the negative effects of British colonialism as the colonists attempted to turn Antigua "into England" and the natives "into English" without regard for the native culture or homeland (Kincaid 24). The effects of colonialism serve as the major theme for A Small Place in which Kincaid expresses her anger both at the colonists and at the Antiguans for failing to fully achieve their independence. She feels that Antiguans failed to adopt the positive aspects of colonialism, for instance a good educational system which might help the population to better their lives. This inability to promote the importance of education and hope for the future is symbolized in the failure to rebuild Antigua's only library, St. John's, which was "damaged in the earthquake of 1974" and years later, still carries the sign "REPAIRS ARE PENDING" (Kincaid 9).

2. New York State Writers Institute - Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid. Jamaica Kincaid's. most recent work is the novel The Autobiography of My Mother, which was released in January 1996. Her first three booksAt the Bottom of the River ( 1984), Annie http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/kincaid.html

Jamaica Kincaid Air Date: WMHT, Channel 17, Saturday, May 29, 1999, 6:00 p.m. Air Date: WMHQ, Channel 45, Wednesday, June 2, 1999, 9:30 p.m Hear Jamaica Kincaid talk about her writing. Jamaica Kincaid's most recent work is the novel The Autobiography of My Mother, which was released in January 1996. Her first three books At the Bottom of the River Annie John (1985), and A Small Place (1988)focus on life in her birthplace, Antigua, West Indies. In these books, Kincaid employs a highly poetic literary style celebrated for its rhythms, imagery, and characterization. With the publication of At the Bottom of the River , Kincaid was hailed as an important new voice in American fiction. Milton wrote in the New York Times Book Review , that Kincaid's tales "have all the force of illuminating, and even prophetic power," and David Leavitt noted in the Village Voice that her stories move "with grace and ease from the mundane to the enormous." Henry Louis Gates Jr., a distinguished critic and black studies scholar compared Kincaid's work to that of Toni Morrison and Wole Soyinka: "There is a self-contained world which they explore with great detail. Not to chart the existence of the world, but to show that human emotions manifest themselves everywhere." Kincaid has received numerous awards and honors, including the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for

3. Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid. BIO. Born Elaine Potter Richardson in Antigua on May 25th, 1949, Kincaid was raised by her mother, never knowing her father. http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-kincaid-jamaica.asp

Author Bibliography GETTING BACK TO NATURE Books by Jamaica Kincaid LUCY MR. POTTER MY GARDEN BOOK THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY MOTHER Reading Group Guide Jamaica Kincaid BIO Born Elaine Potter Richardson in Antigua on May 25th, 1949, Kincaid was raised by her mother, never knowing her father. After growing contemptuous of the British regime in her homeland - she left the Caribbean at the age of 17 to pursue an opportunity as an au pair in New York. Once in NY she dyed her hair blonde, changed her name to Jamaica Kincaid, cut off all ties with her mother and began writing classes at The New School. While accompanying George W.S. Trow, as he researched pieces for the New Yorker column "Talk of the Town," Kincaid started taking notes on events in the city. Trow passed her notes on to William Shawn, then the editor of the New Yorker, who recognized Kincaid's talent and decided to print her notes as a piece. Shawn then went on to publish "Girl," a piece of Kincaid's short fiction in 1978. A year later, Kincaid married the composer Allen Shawn (William Shawn's son). Kincaid wrote regularly for the New Yorker until fairly recently when she left, citing she was displeased with the vision of new editor.

4. Voices From The Gaps: Jamaica Kincaid JAMAICA KINCAID b.1949. PROJECT INFO. I write out of defiance. Jamaica Kincaid at the University of Minnesota, February 5, 2001. I hope never to be at peace! http://voices.cla.umn.edu/newsite/authors/KINCAIDjamaica.htm

PROJECT WRITERS CLASSROOM SUBMIT ... By significant dates JAMAICA KINCAID b.1949 PROJECT INFO Overview and purpose of the program Awards List of contributors Permissions list ... Contact us (please note that we have no contact with the writers and cannot provide contact information) I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance. Jamaica Kincaid at the University of Minnesota, February 5, 2001 I hope never to be at peace! I hope to make my life manageable, and I think it's fairly manageable now. But oh, I would never accept peace. That seems death. As I sit here enjoying myself to a degree, I never give up thinking about the way I came into the world, how my ancestors came from Africa to the West Indies as slaves. I just could never forget it. Or forgive it. It's like a big wave that's still pulsing. Jamaica Kincaid, in an interview with the

5. Kincaid Jamaica kincaid jamaica Book Review and Price Comparison. Top Selling Books for kincaid jamaica. My Brother book. Jamaica Kincaid, Vol. 646 http://www.bookfinder.us/Literature___Fiction/Authors_A-Z/Kincaid__Jamaica.html

Book Reviews and Compare Prices for Kincaid Jamaica Home Browse Books Bookstore List Top Selling Books ... Rate Book Stores Search: Title/Author/Keywords/ISBN Authors A-Z Kincaid Jamaica Book Review and Price Comparison Pages: Next Top Selling Books for Kincaid Jamaica My Brother AUTHOR: Jamaica Kincaid ISBN: 0374525625 Publish Date: October 1998 Format: Paperback Compare prices for this book Small Place AUTHOR: Jamaica Kincaid ISBN: 0374527075 Publish Date: April 2000 Format: Paperback Compare prices for this book Jamaica Kincaid, Vol. 646 AUTHOR: Diane Simmons ISBN: 0805739947 Publish Date: September 1994 Format: Hardcover Compare prices for this book Mr. Potter AUTHOR: Kincaid, Jamaica ISBN: 0374214948 Format: Hardcover Compare prices for this book Annie John AUTHOR: Jamacia Kincaid ISBN: 0374525102 Publish Date: March 1997 Format: Paperback Compare prices for this book 2004 Book Lover's Daily Boxed Calendar AUTHOR: Workman Publishing ISBN: 076112828X Publish Date: September 2003 Format: Wall Calendar Compare prices for this book Annie John AUTHOR: Kincaid, Jamaica

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7. Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid. Jamaica Kincaid beautifully delineates hatred and fear, because she knows they are often a step away from love and obsession. http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/worldlit/caribbean/Kincaid.html

World Literature in English Jamaica Kincaid Biography Major Themes w. map of Antigua Synopsis of Annie John Works Cited Related Sites Issues for Discussion: Annie John The Circling Hand 'Columbus in Chains' A Walk to the Jetty Annie John Synopsis Reviews and Commentary for Annie John , Amazon) Biography born in 1949 as Elaine Potter Richardson on the island of Antigua. Her stepfather, a carpenter, and her mother Received British education in Antigua. 1965: sent to Westchester, New York to work as an au pair. ("As the eldest of four, and the only girl, she was apprenticed to a seamstress, then plucked from school, where she was excelling, and sent to the US as an au pair ["really a servant"] from " Kincaid in Revolt 1967: studied photography at the New York School for Social Research after leaving the family for which she worked, and also attended Franconia College in New Hampshire for a year. Her first writing experience involved a series of articles for Ingenue magazine. In 1973, she changed her name to Jamaica Kincaid because her family disapproved of her writing. (About her name: "'Jamaica is an English corruption of what Columbus called Xaymaca.'" This renaming is a theme in Kincaid's works both fiction and non-fiction. According to Kincaid, renaming is a metaphor for conquest and colonial domination. )

8. Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid (1949 ). a web guide to Jamaica Kincaid from literaryhistory.com. http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Kincaid.htm

Jamaica Kincaid (1949 - ) a web guide to Jamaica Kincaid from literaryhistory.com main page 20th century poetry authors, alphabetical 19th century authors ... postcolonial authors General Articles http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/caribbean/kincaid/kincaidov.html An introduction to Jamaica Kincaid in the context of Caribbean history and postcolonial theory, from Professor George Landow's Postcolonial Literature and Cultural Web. A substantial introduction to Kincaid by Emilia Ippolito. From the Literary Encyclopedia, an internet resource created by a global network of scholars http://voices.cla.umn.edu/newsite/authors/KINCAIDjamaica.htm An overview of her life and works, with a bibliography, from the Univ. of Minnesota web site "Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color." http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/features/womenwriters/kincaid_life.shtml A summary of her achievement from the BBC World Service. http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Kincaid.html An introduction to the author from the postcolonial web project at Emory Univ. http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/worldlit/caribbean/Kincaid.html

9. Jamacia Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid Click name for more titles. Kincaid said race is a false idea. It s just an invention to enforce power. So I never talk about race. http://authors.aalbc.com/jamacia.htm

Up More Authors Children Book Authors Cartoonists ... Jamaica Kincaid Click name for more titles Kincaid said "race is a false idea. It's just an invention to enforce power. So I never talk about race. I talk about the inflammatory thing which is power." Read an Interview with Jamacia Kincaid at: http://www.missouri.edu/%7emoreview/interviews/kincaid.html Check out the NPR Radio Broadcast at: http://www.prognet.com/contentp/npr/ne7m04.html Join Ray Suarez for a round table discussion with writers from the Caribbean. Authors Jamaica Kincaid, Edwidge Danticat and Enrique Fernandez discuss their work and how it is influenced by their cultural heritage. The panelists will also share insights on the multi-cultural dialogue in America today. A round table discussion with Caribbean writers. The Autobiography of My Mother (click title to buy book) Format: Hardcover Date Published: January 1996 Edition Description: 1st ed Edition Number: 1 Annie John (click title to buy book) Format: Hardcover Date Published: February 1985 AALBC.com Home

10. MARINet Jamaica Kincaid . Films. Films déjà sortis (de ou avec) 1 résultat(s). http://marinet.lib.ca.us/search/a?SEARCH=kincaid jamaica

11. Portland Public Library Annie (1982) Kelkoo Finden Sie die besten Preise - Translate this page Autor Kincaid , Jamaica Bindung taschenbuch. Verfügbarkeit sofort lieferbar - Kategorie Bücher. € 10,80 Weiter Annie John, English edition. Von buecher.de. http://catalog.portland.lib.me.us/search/a?kincaid jamaica

12. SALON Features | Jamaica Kincaid jamaica kincaid tall, striking, cleareyed turns heads when she strides into the lobby of a mustard-colored bandana. kincaid simply projects a natural authority that attracts http://www.salon.com/05/features/kincaid.html

T H E S A L O N I N T E R V I E W By DWIGHT GARNER J amaica Kincaid tall, striking, clear-eyed turns heads when she strides into the lobby of New York's swank Royalton Hotel one chilly day in mid-December. It's not that she is trying very hard, dressed comfortably as she is in rumpled khakis, green blazer, and a mustard-colored bandana. Kincaid simply projects a natural authority that attracts attention, and that spills over into her writing. Over the course of only four books the novels "Annie John" (1985) and "Lucy" (1990), the short story collection "At the Bottom of the River" (1984), and her nonfiction book about her native Antigua titled "A Small Place" (1988) Kincaid has carved out a unique place in the American literary landscape. Writing in spare, deceptively simple prose, her fiction vividly and often harrowingly describes the difficult coming-of-age of strong-minded girls who, very much like herself, were born into tropical poverty. Kincaid now lives in Bennington, Vermont with her husband, the composer Allen Shawn, and their two children. In her precise, elegant British West Indies accent, Kincaid spoke freely about her life and work, notably her recent decision to quit her longtime position as a staff writer for The New Yorker which she now describes as "a version of People magazine" and her relationship with Tina Brown. "She's actually got some nice qualities," Kincaid says about her former editor. "But she can't help but be attracted to the coarse and vulgar. I wish there was a vaccine I would sneak it up on her."

13. Jamaica Kincaid Hates Happy Endings Interview with Mother Jones, by Marilyn Snell. http://www.mojones.com/mother_jones/SO97/snell.html

Other ways to search for an article Current Issue Free MoJo Newsletters MoJournal Text HTML Must Reads ... Learn about paid content on MotherJones.com IN NEWS Public Information, Private Profit? IN COMMENTARY Closing a 40-Year Gap ARTS Taking Back the Dial Jamaica Kincaid Hates Happy Endings By Marilyn Snell September/October 1997 Issue Subscribe to Must Reads Today Each Friday, we gather the best of our Mother Jones Daily web-logs into a single listing of truly "must read" articles. Read a Sample Advertisement Advertisement J amaica Kincaid's life reads like an American Cinderella story: born and raised in poverty on the island of Antigua, West Indies; unloved by an unresponsive and often abusive mother who shipped her off to the United States at 17 to be an au pair (Kincaid insists on the word "servant" to describe her employment status); "discovered" on the streets of Manhattan by New Yorker columnist George Trow, who brought her into the fold of the magazine by printing one of her articles in the "Talk of the Town" section; became a celebrated fiction writer ( Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother

14. SALON Features: Jamaica Kincaid, Page 2 jamaica kincaid, page 2. Do you share jamaica kincaid s low opinion of Tina Brown s New Yorker? What about her views on women, race and the writer s life? http://www.salon.com/05/features/kincaid2.html

Jamaica Kincaid, page 2 Y ou left Antigua to come to the United States when you were seventeen. Did you have any idea, in the back of your head, that you might someday be a writer? None. Absolutely none. I came here to be an au pair in New York although servant is the word I prefer. I came to work as a servant, in somebody's house, as one of those many ladies you see with little blonde children. And when I first arrived I was incredibly depressed and lonely. I didn't know there was such a world as the literary world. I didn't know anything, except maybe how to put one foot in front of the other. Yet you were somewhat educated, weren't you? Yes. In school we read English writers Kipling, Carlyle, people like that. It was as if, as children, we were all being prepared for MFAs. We were all given this incredible literature to read. And my mother read, although she never read fiction. She read textbooks on health and the body, and she read biographies Mozart, Florence Nightingale, and such people. As a child, I've heard, you would steal books from libraries.

15. The Missouri Review At the Missouri Review's website. http://www.missourireview.org/index.php?genre=Interviews&title=An Interview

16. Jamaica Kincaid - Caribbean Hall Of Fame Short biography. http://caribbean.halloffame.tripod.com/Jamaica_Kincaid.html

var cm_role = "live" var cm_host = "tripod.lycos.com" var cm_taxid = "/memberembedded" Check out the NEW Hotbot Tell me when this page is updated Jamaica Kincaid Biography Date of Birth (DOB): From: Antigua and Barbuda Best Known for: Author of "Annie John" Bio: Jamaica Kincaid was born in 1949 as Elaine Potter Richardson on the island of Antigua. She lived with her stepfather, a carpenter, and her mother. As an only child, Kincaid maintained a close relationship with her mother until the age of nine, when the first of her three brothers were born. In 1965 when she was sent to Westchester, New York to work as an au pair. In Antigua, she completed her secondary education under the British system due to Antigua's status as a British colony until 1967. She went on to study photography at the New York School for Social Research after leaving the family for which she worked, and also attended Franconia College in New Hampshire for a year. Afiwi.com's complete profile on Jamaica Kincaid back to the Caribbean Hall of Fame Home Search: for an extended Biography with photographs and links related to Jamaica Kincaid and other famous Antiguans and notable West Indians visit Afiwi.com's

17. Jamaica Kincaid, Merle Hodge, George Lamming. English Literature Essays, Contrib The Two Worlds of the Child A study of the novels of three West Indian writers; jamaica kincaid, Merle Hodge, and George Lamming http://www.english-literature.org/essays/kincaid_hodge_lamming.html

Jamaica Kincaid, Merle Hodge, George Lamming The Two Worlds of the Child: A study of the novels of three West Indian writers; Jamaica Kincaid, Merle Hodge, and George Lamming by Tannistho Ghosh and Priyanka Basu English Literature Home Page Course Summary English Literature Resources English Literature Essays ... Contact Us Jamaica Kincaid Merle Hodge 1944 - George Lamming Behold the Child among his new-born blisses A six years' Darling of a pigmy size! See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies, Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses, With light upon him from his father's eyes! See, at his feet, some little plan or chart, Some fragment from his dream of human life, Shaped by himself with newly-learned art. [1] As Ngugi put it in Decolonizing the Mind Children who encountered literature in colonial schools and universities were thus experiencing the world defined and reflected in the European experience of history. Their entire way of looking at the world, even the world of the immediate environment, was Euro-centric. Europe was the centre of Universe. The earth moved around the European intellectual scholarly axis. The images children encountered in literature were reinforced by their study of history and geography, and science and technology where Europe was, once again, the centre. This in turn fitted well with the cultural imperatives of British imperialism.

18. Jamaica Kincaid: An Overview Biography Works Postimperial Literature. History Politics Themes PoCo Theory. http://www.postcolonialweb.org/caribbean/kincaid/kincaidov.html

19. SALON Features | Jamaica Kincaid An interview with the author archived at Salonmagazine.com's website. http://www.salon1999.com/05/features/kincaid.html

T H E S A L O N I N T E R V I E W By DWIGHT GARNER J amaica Kincaid tall, striking, clear-eyed turns heads when she strides into the lobby of New York's swank Royalton Hotel one chilly day in mid-December. It's not that she is trying very hard, dressed comfortably as she is in rumpled khakis, green blazer, and a mustard-colored bandana. Kincaid simply projects a natural authority that attracts attention, and that spills over into her writing. Over the course of only four books the novels "Annie John" (1985) and "Lucy" (1990), the short story collection "At the Bottom of the River" (1984), and her nonfiction book about her native Antigua titled "A Small Place" (1988) Kincaid has carved out a unique place in the American literary landscape. Writing in spare, deceptively simple prose, her fiction vividly and often harrowingly describes the difficult coming-of-age of strong-minded girls who, very much like herself, were born into tropical poverty. Kincaid now lives in Bennington, Vermont with her husband, the composer Allen Shawn, and their two children. In her precise, elegant British West Indies accent, Kincaid spoke freely about her life and work, notably her recent decision to quit her longtime position as a staff writer for The New Yorker which she now describes as "a version of People magazine" and her relationship with Tina Brown. "She's actually got some nice qualities," Kincaid says about her former editor. "But she can't help but be attracted to the coarse and vulgar. I wish there was a vaccine I would sneak it up on her."

20. Jamaica Kincaid Bio A Brief Biography of jamaica kincaid. David jamaica kincaid s twisted quest for self began with her May 25, 1949 birth in Antigua. She http://www.postcolonialweb.org/caribbean/kincaid/bio.html

A Brief Biography of Jamaica Kincaid David P. Lichtenstein '99 , Brown University, Contributing Editor, Caribbean Web Jamaica Kincaid's twisted quest for self began with her May 25, 1949 birth in Antigua. She was then christened Elaine Potter Richardson, but when she fled the island at the age of seventeen, she left her family as well as her name behind and entered North America as Jamaica Kincaid. Her life should seem familiar to those who know her heavily autobiographical work. She worked first in New York City as an au pair, for an upper class family much like the one pictured in Lucy . She left this work to study photography at the New School for Social Research and then went on to Franconia College in New Hampshire (but did not take a degree) before returning to New York. There she became a regular contributor to the New Yorker magazine, writing for nearly twenty years (1976-1995) before the arrival of new management convinced her to leave. She now resides in Bennington Vermont with her husband and children. References Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series

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