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Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. My Brother is an unblinking record of a life that ended too early, and it speaks volumes about the difficult truths at the heart of all families.
Rastafarisme --- Frères et soeurs --- Kincaid, Jamaica --- Kincaid, Jamaica --- Famille.
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Jamaica Kincaid’s hauntingly beautiful novels, short stories, essays, and memoirs have established her as one of today's most innovative writers. In works such as Annie John, Lucy, and A Small Place, the experiences of an often underrepresented group, Caribbean women, are given fresh treatment in the vibrant voice of this versatile author.
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Jamaica Kincaid est l’une des voix remarquables de la petite île d’Antigua. Installée aux États-Unis depuis une quarantaine d’années, elle est l’auteur d’une oeuvre protéiforme et originale (romans, nouvelles, essais, chroniques, récits de voyage, ouvrages sur le jardin). Sa production s’inscrit dans l’entre-deux d’un espace littéraire caribéen et d’un imaginaire « mondial ». L’imaginaire de Jamaica Kincaid souhaite éclairer son oeuvre singulière et montrer ce qui, dans son écriture, résiste aux étiquettes trop facilement assignées (récits autobiographiques, Bildungsroman). On a ici choisi de suivre les chemins de traverse et de prêter attention à ce que disent les voix insistantes, faussement insignifiantes, des textes inclassables de Jamaica Kincaid. Par le biais de la notion de reprise et de motifs ordinaires (la marche, le travail de la main, le jardinage, le tricot, l’objet), L’imaginaire de Jamaica Kincaid aborde les discrètes façons dont l’oeuvre figure les tiraillements du soi, la difficulté du rapport au monde, à la famille, à l’histoire et au verbe. L’ oeuvre fait voir le chemin des petites choses, les tracés autres que ceux de la ligne droite (zigzag, diagonales, lignes brisées, courbes) faisant ainsi surgir un fond commun de motifs qui met l’espace de l’oeuvre en résonance critique avec un imaginaire caribéen et mondial.
Littérature antillaise de langue anglaise --- Histoire et critique --- Kincaid, Jamaica, --- Kincaid, Jamaica --- Histoire et critique.
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"Understanding Jamaica Kincaid" introduces readers to the prizewinning author best known for the novels "Annie John", "Lucy", and "The Autobiography of My Mother". Justin D. Edwards surveys Jamaica Kincaid's life, career, and major works of fiction and nonfiction to identify and discuss her recurring interests in familial relations, Caribbean culture, and the aftermath of colonialism and exploitation. In addition to examining the haunting prose, rich detail, and personal insight that have brought Kincaid widespread praise, Edwards also identifies and analyzes the novelist's primary thematic concerns - the flow of power and the injustices faced by people undergoing social, economic, and political change. Edwards chronicles Kincaid's childhood in "Antigua", her development as a writer, and her early journalistic work as published in the "New Yorker" and other magazines. In separate chapters he provides critical appraisals of Kincaid's early novels; her works of nonfiction, including "My Brother" and "A Small Place"; and her more recent novels, including "Mr. Potter". Edwards discusses the way in which Kincaid both exposes the problems of colonization and neocolonization and warns her readers about the dire consequences of inequality in the era of globalization.
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Psychological study of literature --- Kincaid, Jamaica --- Cliff, Michelle
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Cliff (michelle), 1940 --- -Kincaid, Jamaica --- Cliff (michelle), 1940-
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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 --- Kincaid, Jamaica (1949-....) --- Féminisme --- Critique et interprétation --- Dans la littérature
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