TY - BOOK ID - 77866083 TI - Jamaica Kincaid PY - 2005 SN - 0791482928 1423747747 9781423747741 9780791482926 0791465233 9780791465233 PB - Albany State University of New York Press DB - UniCat KW - Memory in literature. KW - Mothers and daughters in literature. KW - Women and literature KW - Memory as a theme in literature KW - Literature KW - History KW - Kincaid, Jamaica KW - Richardson, Elaine Potter KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Antigua KW - Self-Governing State of Antigua KW - Leeward Islands (Federation) KW - West Indies (Federation) KW - Antigua and Barbuda KW - In literature. KW - Colony of Antigua UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77866083 AB - 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. ER -