LEADER 02795cam 2200445 a 4500001 ocm57010130 003 OCoLC 005 20141211183103.0 008 041117s2005 nyu b s001 0 eng 010 2004027305 020 0791465233 (alk. paper) 035 (Sirsi) o57010130 035 (OCoLC)57010130 040 DLC |cDLC |dC#P |dBAKER |dUtOrBLW 043 nwaq--- 049 EREE 050 00 PR9275.A583 |bK564 2005 082 00 813/.54 |222 100 1 Bouson, J. Brooks. |=^A298991 245 10 Jamaica Kincaid : |bwriting memory, writing back to the mother / |cJ. Brooks Bouson. 260 Albany : |bState University of New York Press, |c©2005. 300 ix, 242 pages ; |c24 cm 336 text |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |2rdamedia 338 volume |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-231) and index. 505 0 "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 -- "I am writing for solace" : seeking solace in writing, gardening, and domestic life. 600 10 Kincaid, Jamaica |xCriticism and interpretation. |=^A158789 650 0 Women and literature |zAntigua and Barbuda |xHistory |y20th century. |=^A121473 650 0 Mothers and daughters in literature. |=^A121893 650 0 Memory in literature. |=^A30068 651 0 Antigua |xIn literature. |=^A276538 856 41 |3Table of contents |uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip053/2004027305.html 994 92 |bERE 910 PromptCat 938 Baker & Taylor |bBKTY |c65.00 |d65.00 |i0791465233 |n0006165211 |sactive 980 2005-08-24 |b65 |d0 |e54.6 |f656907 596 1 998 1008431