Putting myself together : writing 1974- / Jamaica Kincaid ; introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kincaid, Jamaica, Author.

Contributor:

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., writer of introduction.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kincaid, Jamaica--Literary collections.

Kincaid, Jamaica.

Genre:

Essays.

Literary criticism.

Literature.

Physical Description:

xviii, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025.

Summary:

"A collection of the inimitable writer's essays, stories, and articles from her early days at The Village Voice through her time at The New Yorker "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The triumph of bad and cool (1974)

Erotica! (1975)

If mammies ruled the world (1975)

Pam Grier (1975)

The Labelle hustle (1975)

Last of the black white girls (1976)

Jamaica Kincaid's New York (1977)

Antigua crossings (Fiction) (1978)

Ovando (Fiction) (1989)

Athol Fugard (Interview by Jamaica Kincaid) (1990)

The finishing line (Fiction) (1990)

Foreword to 'Babouk: Voices of Resistance' (1991)

On seeing England for the first time (1991)

Biography of a dress (1992)

An Antiguan election journal (1994)

Christmas pictures from a warm climate (1994)

Introduction to 'The Best American Essays, 1995'

The little revenge from the periphery (1997)

Introduction to 'Generations of Women' (1998)

Introduction to 'My Favorite Plant' (1998)

Introduction to 'Poetics of Place' (1998)

Looking at Giverny (1998)

Those words that echo... echo... echo through life (1999)

Islander once, now a voyager (2000)

Sowers and reapers (2001)

Her best friend provokes her to write about her garden (2002)

Splendor in the glass (2002)

The garden of the year just passed (2002)

The lure of the poppy (2002)

Gardening (2003)

Living history in Vermont (2003)

Desert blooms (2004)

Jumby Bay (2004)

Introduction to 'The Best American Travel Writing, 2005'

Formal meets folly (2005)

Foreword to Ian Frazier's 'Gone to New York' (2006)

Captain's farm (2006)

Foreword to Alexandre Dumas's 'Georges' (2007)

Dances with daffodils (2007)

Her infinite variety (2008)

The estrangement (2009)

Lack, Part two (2009)

Tide (2011)

Introduction to Simone Schwarz-Bart's 'The Bridge of Beyond' (2013)

The kind of gardener I am not (2018)

The walk to Robert Frost's house (2019)

A letter to Robinson Crusoe (2019)

I see the world (2020)

Inside the American snow dome (2020)

I was never really making a garden so much as having a conversation (2020)

The disturbances of the garden (2020)

Acknowledgments.

ISBN:

9780374613235

0374613230

OCLC:

1517949801