Jamaica Kincaid : a critical companion / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth.

Series:

Critical companions to popular contemporary writers.

Critical companions to popular contemporary writers, 1082-4979

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kincaid, Jamaica--Criticism and interpretation.

Kincaid, Jamaica.

Women and literature--Antigua--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 p.)

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

With the publication of her novel Annie John in 1985, Jamaica Kincaid entered the ranks of the best novelists of her generation. Her three autobiographical novels, Annie John, Lucy, and Autobiography of My Mother, and collection of short stories, At the Bottom of the River, touch on the universal theme of coming-of-age and the female adolescent's need to sever her ties to her mother. This angst is couched in the social landscape of post-colonial Antigua, a small Caribbean island whose legacy of racism affects Kincaid's protagonists. Her fiction rewrites the history of the Caribbean from a West Indies perspective and this milieu colors the experiences of her characters. Following a biographical chapter, Paravisini-Gebert traces the development of Kincaid's craft as a writer. Each of the novels and the collection of short stories is discussed in a separate chapter that includes sections on plot, character, theme, and an alternate critical approach from which to read the novel, such as feminist. A complete primary and secondary bibliography and lists of selected reviews of Kincaid's work complete the study.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-177) and index.

ISBN:

9798400673481

9786610708499

9781280708497

1280708492

9780313007569

031300756X

OCLC:

40567371