Jamaica Kincaid(English, Hardcover, Paravisini-Gebert Lizabeth)

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Jamaica Kincaid(English, Hardcover, Paravisini-Gebert Lizabeth) is written by Paravisini-Gebert Lizabeth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0313302952 (ISBN 10) and 9780313302954 (ISBN 13).

With the publication of her novel Annie John in 1985, Jamaica Kincaid entered the ranks of the best novelists of her generation. Her three autobiographical novels, Annie John, Lucy, and Autobiography of My Mother, and collection of short stories, At the Bottom of the River, touch on the universal theme of coming-of-age and the female adolescent's need to sever her ties to her mother. This angst is couched in the social landscape of post-colonial Antigua, a small Caribbean island whose legacy of racism affects Kincaid's protagonists. Her fiction rewrites the history of the Caribbean from a West Indies perspective and this milieu colors the experiences of her characters.Following a biographical chapter, Paravisini-Gebert traces the development of Kincaid's craft as a writer. Each of the novels and the collection of short stories is discussed in a separate chapter that includes sections on plot, character, theme, and an alternate critical approach from which to read the novel, such as feminist. A complete primary and secondary bibliography and lists of selected reviews of Kincaid's work complete the study.