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Title:

Jamaica Kincaid / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Edition:

New ed.

Publisher:

Bloom's Literary Criticism,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

vii, 228 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Kincaid, Jamaica--Criticism and interpretation.

Other Authors:

Bloom, Harold.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-216) and index.

Contents:

A small place : glossing Annie John's rebellion -- Caribbean writers and Caribbean language : a study of Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John -- Authorizing the slut in Jamaica Kincaid's At the bottom of the river -- Jamaica Kincaid's writing and the maternal-colonial matrix -- Under English, obeah English : Jamaica Kincaid's new language -- The daffodil gap : Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy -- Death and the diaspora writer : hybridity and mourning in the work of Jamaica Kincaid -- Imaginary homelands in Jamaica Kincaid's narratives of development -- In the beginning there was death : spiritual desolation and the search for self in Jamaica Kincaid's Autobiography of my mother -- "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 -- Escaping the colonizer's whip : the binary discipline -- "What if he did not have a sister [who lived in the United States]?" : Jamaica Kincaid's My brother as remittance text.

Summary:

Essays discuss the themes and techniques used by the Caribbean author in her major works.

Series:

Bloom's modern critical views

ISBN:

0791098125
9780791098127

LCCN:

2007037660

Locations:

UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Carroll)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)