A Small Place
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IV. Special Area: Literary
Social Criticism
1. Primary Texts: Narrative Prose
Jamaica
Kincaid. A
Small Place.
Supporting References:
- Birch, Dinah. "Kincaid, Jamaica." The Oxford Companion to English Literature. : Oxford University Press, 2009. Oxford Reference. 2009. Date Accessed 19 Aug. 2013
The article offers
an overview of Kincaid and less a discussion on the above-cited
text.
“Kincaid, Jamaica (1949– ).
Novelist and short story writer, born Elaine Potter Richardson in
Antigua; now resident in America. Her fiction arises from anger about
slavery and its postcolonial traces, particularly in the experience
of girls and their mothers. At the Bottom of the River
(1983) is a volume of short stories which begins an exploration of
the mother–daughter relationship; her first novel, Annie John
(1985), set in Antigua, explores the fierce vicissitudes of a
daughter's love for her mother and her homeland. Lucy (1990)
describes a girl leaving Antigua for America, and The
Autobiography of my Mother (1996) is a first‐person narrative
in which a woman looks back on her troubled life, crossing generic
boundaries between fiction and autobiography as Kincaid does in My
Brother (1997). A Small Place (1988) is a
scintillatingly savage attack on Western tourism in Antigua, which is
seen as a second wave of colonialism implicating corrupt local
politicians. Non‐fictional work includes My Garden (Book),
a series of meditations on gardening, and Talk Stories
(2001), a collection of Kincaid's pieces for New
Yorker's ‘Talk of the Town’, written when
she first came to the United States from Antigua (1978–83).”
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