Jamaica Kincaid鈥檚 Writings of History: A Poetics of ImpermanenceAntonia Purk
Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother , a profound meditation on the possibility of humanism, is narrated in the voice of a woman who is herself questionably able to express human sympathy or feel love. The novel asks that its reader become, in a paradoxical sense, the empathic ...
Luce, Shawna
Pengubah permainan yang lengkap, At the Bottom of the River oleh Jamaica Kincaid yang lahir di Antigua adalah serangkaian cerita pendek terkait yang dengan jelas menciptakan kembali masa kecil Karibia. Entri pendek, liris, dan to the point seperti “Girl”, sebuah monolog di mana seorang ibu...
In 1861, Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl became the first autobiography published by a female former slave. The book described the sexual exploitation that all too often added to the oppression of slavery for Black women; it also provided an early example of Black ...
History, Memory and Family Romance: Mary Shelley and Jamaica KincaidGuerra, LiaQuestione Romantica
This essay reads Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother (1997), a memoir that recounts her brother Devon's AIDS-related death, in relation to both the corpus of US AIDS life writing that emerged during the so-called height of the AIDS crisis and today's ongoing practices of AI...