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100 1 $aBouson, J. Brooks.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88282506
245 10 $aJamaica Kincaid :$bwriting memory, writing back to the mother /$cJ. Brooks Bouson.
260 $aAlbany :$bState University of New York Press,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $aix, 242 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 221-231) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tIntroduction : "when you think of me, think of my life" --$gCh. 2.$t"I had embarked on something called self-invention" : artistic beginnings in "Antigua crossings" and At the bottom of the river --$gCh. 3.$t"The way I became a writer was that my mother wrote my life for me and told it to me" : living in the shadow of the mother in Annie John --$gCh. 4.$t"As I looked at this sentence a great wave of shame came over me and I wept and wept" : the art of memory, anger, and despair in Lucy --$gCh. 5.$t"Imagine the bitterness and the shame in me as I tell you this" : the political is personal in A small place and "On seeing England for the first time" --$gCh. 6.$t"I would bear children, but I would never be a mother to them" : writing back to the contemptuous mother in The autobiography of my mother --$gCh. 7.$t"I shall never forget him because his life is the one I did not have" : remembering her brother's failed life in My brother --$gCh. 8.$t"Like him and his own father before him, I have a line drawn through me" : imagining the life of the absent father in Mr. Potter --$gCh. 9.$tConclusion : "I am writing for solace" : seeking solace in writing, gardening, and domestic life.
520 1 $a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aKincaid, Jamaica$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zAntigua and Barbuda$zAntigua$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aMothers and daughters in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006691
651 0 $aAntigua$xIn literature.
650 0 $aMemory in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85083503
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip053/2004027305.html
852 00 $bbar$hPR9275.A583$iK564 2005