This volume explores the key works of the award-winning Caribbean-American author, Jamaica Kincaid: See Now Then (2013), Mr. Potter (2002), The Autobiography of My Mother (1996), and Lucy (1990).
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
Building a Reputation: Jamaica Kincaid in the 1980s.
Jamaica Kincaid: Biographical Sketch.
1: Critical Contexts.
2: Jamaica Kincaid in the Constellation of Womanist Literature.
3: Kincaid Speaks: A Series of Interviews and Responses to Audience Questions.
4: The Aesthetics of Postcoloniality, Spirituality, and Diaspora: History, Geography, Memory, and Restoration in The Heart of Redness, Mama Day, Praisesong for the Widow, Beloved, and “The Disturbances of the Garden”.
5: Critical Essays on Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John and Lucy, 1985–2017.
6: Critical Readings.
7: The “Popular” Reception of Jamaica Kincaid’s Writings: 1996–2012.
8: Jamaica Kincaid’s Reception in The New York Times: 1990–2013.
9: Comparing Jamaica Kincaid with Other Caribbean Writers.
10: Jamaica Kincaid’s Talk Stories: Their Own Traits and Their Relevance to Her Fiction.
11: An Outsider-Within Cross-Examines White Liberalism in Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy.
12: Who We Are in What They Say: An Exploration of Identity in Memoir Using Jamaica Kincaid’s My Brother.
13: An Expansion of Womanist Literature in Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy and The Autobiography of My Mother.
14: Re-Examination of Children’s Literature: Do We Keep Histoire De Babar, or Replace It with Party: A Mystery.