TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bouson,J.Brooks
TI  - Jamaica Kincaid: writing memory, writing back to the mother 
SN  - 0791465233 (alk. paper)
AV  - PR9275.A583 K564 2005
U1  - 813/.54 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Kincaid, Jamaica
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Antigua
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Mothers and daughters in literature
KW  - Memory in literature
KW  - In literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-231) and index; When you think of me, think of my life -- I had embarked on something called self-invention : artistic beginnings in "Antigua crossings" and At the bottom of the river -- The way I became a writer was that my mother wrote my life for me and told it to me : living in the shadow of the mother in Annie John -- As I looked at this sentence a great wave of shame came over me and I wept and wept : the art of memory, anger, and despair in Lucy -- Imagine the bitterness and the shame in me as I tell you this : the political is personal in A small place and "On seeing England for the first time" -- I would bear children but I would never be a mother to them : writing back to the contemptuous mother in The autobiography of my mother -- I shall never forget him because his life is the one I did not have : remembering her brother's failed life in My brother -- Like him and his own father before him, I have a line drawn through me : imagining the life of the absent father in Mr. Potter
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip053/2004027305.html
ER  -