Original versions of these contributions were presented at the 2002 American Comparative Literature Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-166) and index.
Contents:
A little miss in the land of little women: Louisa May Alcott and Jamaica Kincaid / Maria Soledad Rodriguez -- "Smiling with my mouth turned down": ambivalence in Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy and My garden (book): / Linda Lang-Peralta -- The horrors of homelessness: gothic doubling in Kincaid's Lucy and Brontë's Villette / Evie Shockley -- The autobiography of my mother: Jamaica Kincaid's revision of Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea / Joanne Gass -- Caribbean impossibility: the lack of Jamaica Kincaid / Thomas W. Sheehan -- My other: imperialism and subjectivity in Jamaica Kincaid's My brother / Derik Smith and Cliff Beumel -- "Great plant appropriators" and acquisitive gardeners: Jamaica Kincaid's ambivalent garden (book) / Jeanne C. Ewert -- "Another line was born . . .": Genesis, genealogy, and genre in Jamaica Kincaid's Mr. Potter / Jana Evans Braziel.
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