Reviews the novel, `The Autobiography of My Mother,' by Jamaica Kincaid.doi:10.2307/40152746Kincaid, JamaicaPeopleKincaid, J. 1996. Autobiography of my mother. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux.Kincaid, Jamaica. The Autobiography of My Mother. New Yo...
Donnell, A. (1999) ‘When Writing the Other Is Being True to the Self: Jamaica Kincaid’s The Autobiography of My Mother’ in Pauline Polkey (ed.), Women’s Lives into Present: The Theory, Practice and Writing of Feminist Auto/Biography (London: Macmillan)....
74. Raymond’s Run by Toni Cade Bambara “I don’t have much work to do around the house like some girls. My mother does that. And I don’t have to earn my pocket money by hustling; George runs errands for the big boys and sells Christmas cards. And anything else that’s got to...
书名:The Autobiography of My Mother《我母亲的自传》作者:Jamaica Kincaid简介:Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the haunting, deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, grows up in...
Through locating the instances of unreliable narration and scrutinizing the mode and performative nature of the narrator's account in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother (1996), this essay argues that the novel exposes the pathology of colonialism. More precisely, by reading the novel...
A literary criticism of "The Autobiography of My Mother," by Jamaica Kincaid is presented. It analyzes the novel through Emily Bront's "Jane Eyre" as much as "Jane" is viewed through the former. In "The Autobiography," Kincaid showed how the inheritances of slavery and colonialism cannot ...
Jamaica Kincaid's novel The Autobiography of My Mother tells the story of loss, abandonment,...Alexander, Simone A. JamesThe Research Foundation of SUNY on behalf of SUNY CortlandWagadu: a Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies...
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Jana Evans BrazielRoutledgeAuto/biography StudiesJana Evans Braziel, “Alterbiographic Transmutations of Genre in Jamaica Kincaid’s ‘Biography of a Dress’ and Autobiography of My Mother ,” A/B: Auto/Biography Studies 18.1 (2003): 85–104; and...