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	VG: Artist Biography: Kincaid, Jamaica
		Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson, in 1949 in St. John's, Antigua.
		Kincaid presently lives in Bennington, Vermont with her husband, Allen Shawn, a composer and son of the former editor of the New Yorker, and their two children.
		Jamaica Kincaid definitely has a life full of stories to share and from which to benefit, and she tells them in a way that is so heartfelt that it encourages the reader to look at life through her eyes.
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/kincaid_jamaica.html (2198 words)

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		Jamaica Kincaid was born in 1949 as Elaine Potter Richardson on the island of Antigua.
		In her other novels, Kincaid reflects on the influence of the mother-daughter relationship in shaping a female identity in a male-dominated society and explores the phenomenon of female bonding.
		Kincaid also examines a mother's role in her daughter's socialization and explores the ideas of love, affection, hostility, death and their impact on self-discovery.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Kincaid.html (1029 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Jamaica Kincaid
		Kincaid's fiction is a continuous autobiographical saga, a fluid narrative that seamlessly traverses the vaporous border between memory and imagination.
		Kincaid, of course, is too astute a writer to embrace the fairy-tale form without adding some twists of her own.
		Kincaid, however, purposely avoids the territory of empathy, leaving Xuela to sound her angry, plaintive note over and over: "My mother died at the moment I was born." Neither the sufferings Xuela endures nor the betrayals she inflicts have profound consequences here.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/02.15.96/kincaid-9607.html (1131 words)

	Amazon.com: My Brother: Books: Jamaica Kincaid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Kincaid also does a fine job of describing her various feelings when she realizes toward the end of the book that she knew her brother even less than she had previously thought (and she never claimed to know much about him to begin with).
		Jamaica is driven on the idea that her mother only wants to care for her children if they were sick or in need of caring.
		Jamaica has difficulty dealing with all of the tragic experiences that has happened to her family, that is why one could feel that Jamaica isolated herself from her family.
	www.amazon.com /My-Brother-Jamaica-Kincaid/dp/0374216819 (2951 words)

	Titles by Jamaica Kincaid
		Jamaica Kincaid’s new novel is the haunting, deeply charged story of a woman’s life on the island of Dominica.
		Jamaica Kincaid’s incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother Devon Drew’s life is also the story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer’s mother.
		Kincaid leads her readers to consider, as if for the first time, the powerful ties between mother and child; the beauty and destructiveness of nature; the gulf between the masculine and the feminine; the significance of familiar things—a house, a cup, a pen.
	www.awardannals.com /creator.php?id=1551 (667 words)

	Speakers Worldwide, Inc. - Jamaica Kincaid
		Jamaica Kincaid was born and educated in St. John's, Antigua, in the West Indies, and she now lives with her husband and children in Vermont.
		Kincaid's first book, At The Bottom Of The River, which Plume reissued in January 1992, was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award and went on to win the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
		Kincaid was a 1992 recipient of the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund's annual writer's award and the 1997 Anisfield Wolf Book Award, which was established 60 years ago to recognize books that illuminate the rich diversity of human cultures.
	www.speakersworldwide.com /Kincaid.html (373 words)

	Jamaica Kincaid -- Biographical Information and Study Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Jamaica Kincaid was born May 25, 1949 in Antigua as Elaine Potter Richardson.
		Kincaid claims that when she was sitting around with a group of friends, the two names just seemed to go together (Simmons 12).
		Throughout Kincaid's work, you can see the tightly constructed nature of short stories evident in her novels, which are generally series of interconnected short stories.
	www-unix.oit.umass.edu /~bweber/kincaid.html (1406 words)

	Royce Carlton - Jamaica Kincaid Novelist Caribbean Cultural Identity
		Kincaid’s literary “voice” is deeply rooted in her experiences as a child in her native Antigua and her tempestuous relationship with her mother.
		Featuring a voice-over narration written by Kincaid, the film is an unapologetic look at the "new world order," from the point of view of Jamaican workers, farmers, government and policy officials who see the reality of globalization from the ground up.
		At the age of 17, Kincaid left Antigua to work as an au pair, or what she describes as “a servant,” for an upper class family in New York City.
	www.roycecarlton.com /speakers/kincaid.html (535 words)

	Salon Books \| "My Garden (Book):" by Jamaica Kincaid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Because these essays were written over several years, information is sometimes repeated (that Kincaid was born in Antigua; that once she and her father were ill at the same time, she with a tenacious case of hookworm).
		My favorites pieces are the ones in which Kincaid unleashes the closeted poet within: "Spring," an enraptured psalm to the month of May; the humorous and sensual "The Season Past"; and the marvelous "The Garden in Winter," a fable about racism that is also an elegiac and tender mood piece illuminated by the author's intelligence.
		Jamaica Kincaid: The Salon Interview The Antiguan author who went from being a penniless au pair to a staff writer for the New Yorker speaks frankly about Tina Brown and her own mother, who "should not have had children."
	www.salon.com /books/review/1999/12/20/kincaid (736 words)

	Jamaica Kincaid and the Canon: In Dialogue With "Paradise Lost" and "Jane Eyre." - West Indian writer; British novels ...
		As a child schooled in the British colonial system, West Indian writer Jamaica Kincaid was nourished on a diet of English classics, reading from Shakespeare and Milton by the age of five (Cudjoe 398).
		The emphasis on England, Kincaid has, said, the constant inference that England was the center of the universe, robbed colonial children of a sense of their own worth.
		Though this was undoubtedly not the intention of the colonial educators, the young Kincaid found a hero with whom she could identify in Paradise Lost, the defiant outcast Lucifer.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2278/is_2_23/ai_54543097 (933 words)

	NPR : Intersections: Jamaica Kincaid and the Literature of Defiance
		Kincaid says that as a child, she admired Lucifer's defiance as depicted in John Milton's epic poem.
		Kincaid soon became captivated by the novel's heroine, an orphan girl who becomes a governess at the estate of the wealthy, brooding, mysterious Mr.
		Kincaid encountered the epic poem at age 7 -- as a punishment, she was assigned to copy by hand books one and two.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1625888 (565 words)

	Jamaica Kincaid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Kincaid was considered to be smart by her teachers but was also known as a trouble maker.
		Kincaid has a love for reading and would do anything to be able to do just that, even steal her books.
		Kincaid left Antigua when she was 17 to take a job as an au pair in New York.
	www.msu.edu /~peter422/index3.html (423 words)

	Fiction: Jamaica Kincaid
		Kincaid examines her exploration of the mother-daughter relationship in her novels Annie John (1985) and Lucy (1990) and the parallels that these have to her own relationship with her mother.
		Kincaid also discusses literary influences on her writing, such as the works of Milton, Keats, and Wordsworth.
		In an interview with Salon magazine, Jamaica Kincaid discusses her childhood and coming of age, her days as a writer for The New Yorker, and her novel The Autobiography of My Mother (1996).
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/kincaid.htm (596 words)

	Review \| Talk Stories by Jamaica Kincaid
		For "Talk of the Town" Kincaid was required to write "in the 'We' voice and I did not like it a little bit at first and then I did not like it altogether." Kincaid's "we" was thus handled regally and, as with everything she has done, in her own style.
		In "Notes and Comment" Kincaid sneaks in a first person narrative by beginning with this line: "A letter from a young woman we know:" might be Kincaid's own tale of moving to a different apartment.
		In Kincaid's prose, we seem to watch her grow from green immigrant from Antigua barely out of her teens to the woman who, by the time of the end of her stint at The New Yorker, was well on her way to becoming one of America's best-loved writers.
	www.januarymagazine.com /nonfiction/talkkincaid.html (774 words)

	Amazon.com: A Small Place: Books: Jamaica Kincaid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Born and raised in Antigua, Jamaica Kincaid is angry and frustrated with the white people who dominated the land and native people of her birthplace.
		Kincaid also mentions the drug dealers that the government ignores and those who build ugly condos for the wealthy and rent business space to the government who should be building their own space.
		Kincaid is specifically speaking of Antigua, her words describe the slave trade and the destruction and poverty left in the wake of it no matter what country.
	www.amazon.com /Small-Place-Jamaica-Kincaid/dp/0374527075 (2282 words)

	Amazon.ca: At the Bottom of the River: Books: Jamaica Kincaid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Jamaica Kincaid's AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER is a study of voice and language that first brought the author recognition beyond the pages of literary journals.
		Kincaid writes this piece in a style that is deeply dense and in a way we are able to see, on the pages, a character's mind, discovery, understanding and wonder (no part of nature is left unturned).
		Kincaid's stories have a distinct voice and accent, which perpetuate the subversion of standard rules prescribed by centres of authority.
	www.amazon.ca /At-Bottom-River-Jamaica-Kincaid/dp/0374527342 (1239 words)

	Jamaica Kincaid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kincaid, who is Black and Jewish, lived with her stepfather, a carpenter, and her mother until 1965.
		She went on to study photography at the New School for Social Research after leaving the family for which she worked, and also attended Franconia College in New Hampshire for a year.
		In 1973, she changed her name to Jamaica Kincaid because her family disapproved of her writing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jamaica_Kincaid (430 words)

	Reading Group Guide \| THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY MOTHER by Jamaica Kincaid
		Kincaid draws in readers with frank and often horrific scenes, never shying away from revealing what we fear most.
		Kincaid has focused her work on the lives of mothers and daughters, sexuality, power, and the end result of colonialism on small islands, revealing a history of suffering and humiliation and the demise of a civilization.
		Kincaid's third novel is a haunting, disturbing story of one woman's journey through a cruel and loveless life on the Caribbean island of Dominica.
	www.readinggroupguides.com /guides/autobiography_of_my_mother.asp (1482 words)

	Jamaica Kincaid, Antigua, West Indies, Caribbean, Annie John LiteraryTraveler.com
		Kincaid lived on Antigua for the first 17 years of her life.
		However, after Kincaid's mother gave birth to boys, the family attention was shifted to their wants and needs.
		Young Jamaica's relationship with her mother was destroyed, resulting in angst toward her family with feelings of bitterness and neglect.
	www.literarytraveler.com /authors/jamaica_kincaid_annie_john.aspx (478 words)

	MY BROTHER by Jamaica Kincaid
		Despite the distance between them, Kincaid is compelled to do all she can for her brother, condemned as he is by a poor nation with few resources to spare on the terminally ill. She finds her brother, Devon, near death in the poorest hospital in town.
		Kincaid pleads with her brother to make something of himself before he dies.
		After Devon's inevitable death (throughout Kincaid asserts that he was dead all the while, only his body had yet to drop), the author begins to contemplate the nature of grief and death in earnest.
	www.teenreads.com /reviews/0374216819.asp (826 words)

	virtuaLit Fiction: Biography of Jamaica Kincaid
		Kincaid left Antigua to study in the United States, but she found college "a dismal failure," so she educated herself.
		In her autobiographical writing, Kincaid often explores the idea that her deep affection for her family and her native country developed into a conflicting need for separation and independence as she grew up.
		Typically, Kincaid writes in a deliberately precise rhythmic style about intense emotions, as in her story “Girl” (1978).
	bcs.bedfordstmartins.com /virtualit/fiction/Girl/bio.asp (191 words)

	Caribbean Literature: Derek Walcott - Jamaica Kincaid - Leone Ross
		Kincaid discusses British colonialism, the corruption of the Antiguan government, racism, and greed.
		Ultimately, Kincaid's vision of the human condition is extremely negative But her haunting, almost hypnotic prose really held me. I recommend the book to anyone planning a trip to a poor country for their own pleasure.
		Kincaid leads her readers to consider, as if for the first time, the powerful ties between mother and child; the beauty and destructiveness of nature; the gulf between the masculine and the feminine; the significance of familiar things-a house, a cup, a pen.
	www.caribbeaninspired.com /caribbean/books/caribbean-literature2.htm (1349 words)

	SALON Features \| Jamaica Kincaid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Kincaid simply projects a natural authority that attracts attention, and that spills over into her writing.
		(At birth, Kincaid's own given name was Elaine Potter Richardson.) Most notably, the book is a striking portrait of a Xuela's struggle, as a young woman, to find her own language and identity in the face of an uncaring father, a country wracked by colonialism, and a mother she never knew.
		Kincaid now lives in Bennington, Vermont with her husband, the composer Allen Shawn, and their two children.
	www.salon.com /05/features/kincaid.html (372 words)

	Jamaica Kincaid : Mr. Potter : Book Review
		Kincaid's personal history is well-known: Born in 1949 into poverty on the Caribbean island of Antigua, at age 17, she emigrated to the U.S. from St. John's, Antigua, to become an au pair in New York.
		Kincaid's characters are trapped by a lack of self-awareness, constrained by their rigid and unforgiving environment.
		Like all of us, Kincaid's characters struggle for meaning: "how in some dim and distant way we feel we are nothing and how certain we are that we are everything, all that is to be is present in us and no thing or idea of any kind will replace us."
	www.mostlyfiction.com /latin/kincaid.htm (992 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Jamaica Kincaid
		Born in Antigua in the West Indies, Jamaica Kincaid has cultivated a voice distinct from male Caribbean writers such as Derek Walcott and Caryl Phillips.
		That year Kincaid’s first published piece, an interview with Gloria Steinem, led to a series of articles titled “When I was Seventeen.” For three years, Kincaid worked as a freelance writer until William Shawn, the editor of the New Yorker, hired her as a staff writer.
		Kincaid married her editor’s son, Allen Shawn, and they had a daughter, Annie, in 1985 and a son, Harold, in 1989.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_jamaica_kincaid.html (699 words)

	Amazon.ca: A Small Place: Books: Jamaica Kincaid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Kincaid here examines the geography and history of Antigua, where she was raised.
		Jamaica Kincaid's writing portrays not only her bitterness with the legacies of slavery but also her disappointment with the new Antigua, especially the loss of social values and the corruption plaguing the political life and those higher up in society.
		Kincaid?s narrator pretty clearly says she wishes the tourists would stay home, she despises the English, she disdains the concepts of democracy and capitalism, and doesn?t think much of the people who do.
	www.amazon.ca /Small-Place-Jamaica-Kincaid/dp/0374527075 (2123 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| The Autobiography of My Mother \| Jamaica Kincaid
		The Autobiography of My Mother, which took Kincaid five years to write, has received wide recognition, shooting to bestseller lists across the country, and is regarded as her finest novel yet.
		When Kincaid is not busy raising her two children or obsessing in her garden, her favorite pastime, she is teaching both fiction writing and English at Harvard one semester a year.
		Kincaid has risen from an economic and racially challenged childhood to one of the most revered writers of our time.
	us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/autobiography_of_my_mother.html (2023 words)

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