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Changing her name early in her career because her parents disapproved of her writing, Jamaica Kincaid crossed audiences to embrace feminist, American, postcolonial and world literature. This book offers an introduction and guided overview of her characters, plots, humor, symbols, and classic themes. Designed for students, fans, librarians, and teachers, the 84 A-to-Z entries combine commentary from interviewers, feminist historians, and book critics with numerous citations from primary and secondary sources and comparative literature. The companion features a chronology of Kincaid’s life, West Indies heritage and works, and includes a character name chart.

Kincaid, Jamaica (1949-....) --- Féminisme --- Critique et interprétation --- Dans la littérature

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Philosophical exploration of Jamaica Kincaid’s entire literary oeuvre. By exploring the breadth of Jamaica Kincaid’s writings, this book reveals her work’s transmutations of genre, specifically those of autobiography, biography, and history in relation to the forces of creation and destruction in the Caribbean. Jana Evans Braziel examines Kincaid’s preoccupation with genealogy, genesis, and genocide in the Caribbean; her adaptations of biblical texts for her literary oeuvre; and her authorial deployments of the diabolic as frames for both rethinking the boundaries of genre and altering notions of subjectivity, objectivity, self, and other.

Kincaid, Jamaica (1949-....) --- Littérature caribéenne --- Littérature antillaise de langue anglaise --- Critique et interprétation --- Histoire et critique

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Offers a new perspective on the psychological and affective dynamics of Jamaica Kincaid’s fiction and nonfiction. “I’ve never written about anyone except myself and my mother. I’m just one of those pathetic people for whom writing is therapy.” — Jamaica Kincaid 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. “…the most exhaustive exploration of the importance of the figure of the mother in Kincaid’s work to date.” — New West Indian Guide “Bouson offers a highly intelligent and detailed reading of Kincaid’s work from the perspective of shame and trauma theory. She shows the intersection of the personal and the social in the work, with a central emphasis on the troubled mother-daughter relations. This is a major contribution to the field.” — Joseph Adamson, coeditor of Scenes of Shame:Psychoanalysis, Shame, and Writing.

Kincaid, Jamaica (1949-....) --- Mères et filles --- Femmes --- Critique et interprétation --- Dans la littérature --- Région caraïbe --- Et la littérature

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"L'exorcisme de la blès" est une étude critique du roman "Autobiographie de ma mère" de Jamaica Kincaid. L'auteur explore à travers cette étude le roman dense et troublant d'une écrivaine dont l'écriture est un cri de colère contre un système colonial avilissant. Patricia Donatien-Yssa nous donne ainsi les clés d'un style marqué par la spiritualité et le symbolisme qui révèle une identité rhizomique et s'inscrit dans la subcersion des discours européens. Grâce à l'exploration de l'esthétique de la souffrance et de la mort, en un mot, de la blès, l'auteur nous permet de comprendre l'acte rituel de création et de sublimation auquel se livre Kincaid pour nous offrir cette oeuvre caractéristique.

Souffrance --- Kincaid, Jamaica (1949-....) --- Postcolonialisme --- Littérature antillaise de langue anglaise --- Dans la littérature --- Critique et interprétation --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique

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Colonialism left an indelible mark on writers from the Caribbean. Many of the mid-century male writers, on the eve of independence, looked to England for their models. The current generation of authors, many of whom are women, have increasingly looked-and relocated-to the United States. Incorporating postcolonial theory, West Indian literature, feminist theory, and African American literary criticism, Making Men carves out a particular relationship between the Caribbean canon-as represented by C. L. R. James and V. S. Naipaul, among others-and contemporary Caribbean women writers such as Jean Rhys, and Jamaica Kincaid, Paule Marshall, and Michelle Cliff, who now live in the United States. Discussing the canonical Caribbean narrative as it reflects national identity under the domination of English cultural authority, Belinda Edmondson focuses particularly on the pervasive influence of Victorian sensibilities in the structuring of twentieth-century national identity. She shows that issues of race and English constructions of masculinity not only are central to West Indian identity but also connect Caribbean authorship to the English literary tradition. This perspective on the origins of West Indian literary nationalism then informs Edmondson's search for female subjectivity in current literature by West Indian women immigrants in America. Making Men compares the intellectual exile of men with the economic migration of women, linking the canonical male tradition to the writing of modern West Indian women and exploring how the latter write within and against the historical male paradigm in the continuing process of national definition. With theoretical claims that invite new discourse on English, Caribbean, and American ideas of exile, migration, race, gender identity, and literary authority, Making Men will be informative reading for those involved with postcolonial theory, African American and women's studies, and Caribbean literature.

English literature --- Thematology --- Literary rhetorics --- Caribbean Area --- Caribbean area --- Littérature antillaise de langue anglaise --- Émigration et immigration --- Féminisme et littérature --- Impérialisme --- Colonies --- Narration --- Hommes --- Cliff, Michèlle (1940-....) --- James, Cyril Lionel Robert (1901-1989) --- Kincaid, Jamaica (1949-....) --- Marshall, Paule (1929-....) --- Rhys, Jean (1894-1979) --- Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad (1932-....) --- Femmes écrivains --- Histoire et critique --- Écrivains --- Dans la littérature --- Antilles