1. Jamaica Kincaid Biography, list of major themes, suggested readings, and links.Category Arts Literature Authors K Kincaid, Jamaica......Jamaica Kincaid. Biography. 1997. Available http//www.mg.co.za/mg/books/kincaid.htm(mother.jpg) Kincaid, Jamaica. A Small Place. New York Penguin, 1988. http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/Bahri/Kincaid.html

Jamaica Kincaid Biography Major Themes "I was always being told I should be something, and then my whole upbringing was something I was not: it was English." (Cudjoe 219) "Antigua is a small place, a small island...It was settled by Christopher Columbus in 1493. Not too long after, it was settled by human rubbish from Europe, who used enslaved by noble and exalted human beings from Africa...to satisfy their desire for wealth and power, to feel better about their own miserable existence, so that they could be less lonely and empty- a European disease" (80-81). Antigua became self-governing in 1967, but did not achieve the status of an independent nation within the Commonwealth until 1981. Within the structure of the British educational system imposed upon Antiguans, Kincaid grew to "detest everything about England, except the literature" (Vorda 79). She felt first-hand the negative effects of British colonialism as the colonists attempted to turn Antigua "into England" and the natives "into English" without regard for the native culture or homeland (Kincaid 24). The effects of colonialism serve as the major theme for A Small Place in which Kincaid expresses her anger both at the colonists and at the Antiguans for failing to fully achieve their independence. She feels that Antiguans failed to adopt the positive aspects of colonialism, for instance a good educational system which might help the population to better their lives. This inability to promote the importance of education and hope for the future is symbolized in the failure to rebuild Antigua's only library, St. John's, which was "damaged in the earthquake of 1974" and years later, still carries the sign "REPAIRS ARE PENDING" (Kincaid 9).

2. Voices From The Gaps: Jamaica Kincaid JAMAICA KINCAID b.1949. PROJECT INFO. I write out of defiance. Jamaica Kincaidat the University of Minnesota, February 5, 2001. I hope never to be at peace! http://voices.cla.umn.edu/authors/KINCAIDjamaica.html

PROJECT WRITERS CLASSROOM SUBMIT ... By significant dates JAMAICA KINCAID b.1949 PROJECT INFO Overview and purpose of the program Awards List of contributors Permissions list ... Contact us (please note that we have no contact with the writers and cannot provide contact information) I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance. Jamaica Kincaid at the University of Minnesota, February 5, 2001 I hope never to be at peace! I hope to make my life manageable, and I think it's fairly manageable now. But oh, I would never accept peace. That seems death. As I sit here enjoying myself to a degree, I never give up thinking about the way I came into the world, how my ancestors came from Africa to the West Indies as slaves. I just could never forget it. Or forgive it. It's like a big wave that's still pulsing. Jamaica Kincaid, in an interview with the

3. Bookreporter.com - Author Profile: Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid. BIO. Born Elaine Potter Richardson in Antigua on May 25th,1949, Kincaid was raised by her mother, never knowing her father. http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-kincaid-jamaica.asp

Author Bibliography GETTING BACK TO NATURE Books by Jamaica Kincaid LUCY MR. POTTER MY GARDEN BOOK THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY MOTHER Reading Group Guide Jamaica Kincaid BIO Born Elaine Potter Richardson in Antigua on May 25th, 1949, Kincaid was raised by her mother, never knowing her father. After growing contemptuous of the British regime in her homeland - she left the Caribbean at the age of 17 to pursue an opportunity as an au pair in New York. Once in NY she dyed her hair blonde, changed her name to Jamaica Kincaid, cut off all ties with her mother and began writing classes at The New School. While accompanying George W.S. Trow, as he researched pieces for the New Yorker column "Talk of the Town," Kincaid started taking notes on events in the city. Trow passed her notes on to William Shawn, then the editor of the New Yorker, who recognized Kincaid's talent and decided to print her notes as a piece. Shawn then went on to publish "Girl," a piece of Kincaid's short fiction in 1978. A year later, Kincaid married the composer Allen Shawn (William Shawn's son). Kincaid wrote regularly for the New Yorker until fairly recently when she left, citing she was displeased with the vision of new editor.

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Chapter 44: Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid Elaine Potter Richardson (who changed her name to Jamaica Kincaid in 1973) was born in the British colony of Antigua , an island in the Caribbean. In 1965, she left Antigua for the United States, where she worked as an au pair in New York City (an experience she uses in her novel Lucy). In New York, Kincaid found the freedom and anonymity that she sought, studying photography at the New School for Social Research. She also attended Franconia College in New Hampshire. Upon completion of her studies, she began a career in publishing, working for publications that included Glamour and Mademoiselle magazines. In 1973, after changing her name to Jamaica Kincaid as an act of liberation and reinvention, she met William Shawn, editor of the New Yorker, and was given the "Talk of the Town" column. She published a total of 85 essays for the magazine, having become a staff writer in 1976 (which she continued until 1995). Kincaid has received wide acclaim for her works, which include At the Bottom of the River Annie John Lucy A Small Place The Autobiography of My Mother (1996), and

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6. Jamaica Kincaid Meets Karl Marx Jamaica kincaid jamaica Kincaid was born and raised in Antigua, an island thatis part of the West Indies, and she lived there for 17 years of her life. http://www.honors.unr.edu/~fenimore/finney/

Introduction Biographies Dialogue My Thoughts ... Bibliography Introduction Biographies Jamaica Kincaid: Jamaica Kincaid was born and raised in Antigua, an island that is part of the West Indies, and she lived there for 17 years of her life. Since then she has written novels that are well known for their raw depiction of her strenuous life growing up. Her novels are consistently saturated with her ideas of political corruption and poverty. In particular her work A Small Place focuses on her view of what tourism did to her native land. She describes the horror and damage that the tourists have caused Antigua and how these damages have ultimately affected her own life and those around her. Her writings have always been about herself or a family member and she says she truly knows of nothing else. About Kincaid a writer once said, "The West Indies curls like a vine around her words and spirit. Her sentences throb with rhythm, mysterious and reassuring, as a heartbeat (Fichtner)." Her writings clearly possess a song-like element to them that helps to convey the emotions she is expressing about the subject matter. For these reasons we have classified Kincaid as being a passionate author who has written emotionally about personal experiences and feels that the government and tourism have changed her native lad into a horrid place that can never be what it once was. Karl Marx: Marx began his career as a student at the University of Berlin and where he began studying Hegel's dialectic, an explanation of historical change. Marx continued to voice his radical politic views when he became editor of the Cologne newspaper. Shortly after it was shut down by the police he met Friedrich Engels and together they wrote

7. Hennepin County Library - Online Catalog Previous 10 Next 10. Author, Count. Kincaid, Jamaica, 13. Kincaid, Jamaica,1949, 2. Kincaid, James R. 0. See Kincaid, James R. (James Russell). 5. http://www.hclib.org/pub/ipac/link2ipac.cfm?term=Kincaid Jamaica&index=AA

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10. Writers Of The Caribbean - Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid Antigua 1949 Biography Jamaica Kincaid was born on May25, 1949 in Antigua. She was christened Elaine Potter Richardson http://personal.ecu.edu/deenas/caribbean/kincaid.htm

Jamaica Kincaid Antigua Biography Works Links Home Biography Jamaica Kincaid was born on May 25, 1949 in Antigua. She was christened Elaine Potter Richardson, but when she fled the island at the age of seventeen. When she left her family as well as her name behind and entered North America as Jamaica Kincaid. Her work is considered autobiographical work. She worked first in New York City as an au pair, for an upper class family much like the one pictured in Lucy. She left this work to study photography at the New School for Social Research and then went on to Franconia College in New Hampshire (but did not take a degree) before returning to New York. There she became a regular contributor to the New Yorker magazine, writing for nearly twenty years (1976-1995) before the arrival of new management convinced her to leave. She now resides in Bennington Vermont with her husband and children. Works (list compiled from Voices from the Gap Talk Stories (2001) My Garden (1999) My Favorite Plant (editor) (1998) My Brother (1997) The Autobiography of My Mother (1996) "Song of Roland." New Yorker (12 April 1993)

11. Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid. Girl. Jamaica Kincaid became a professional writeralmost be accident. Living in New York City in the 1970's http://pages.nyu.edu/~mah222/jam.html

Jamaica Kincaid Girl Jamaica Kincaid became a professional writer almost be accident. Living in New York City in the 1970's, she befriended one of the staff writers at the New Yorker and began to accompany him as he conducted research for the "Talk of the Town" section. Before long, she discovered that she could write and that her writing impressed the editors of the magazine. When her first piece of nonfiction was published, Kincaid remembers, "That is when I realized what my writing was. My writing was the thing that I thought. Not something else. Just what I thought." After working as a staff writer at the New Yorker for four years, she began to turn to fiction. "Girl" is the first piece of fiction she published; it appeared in the New Yorker in 1978. Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry; don't walk barehead in the hot sun; cook pumpkin fritters in very hot sweet oil; soak your little clothes right after you take them off; when buying cotton to make yourself a nice blouse, be sure that it doesn't have gum on it, because that way it won't hold up well after a wash; soak salt fish overnight before you cook it; is it true that you sing benna in Sunday School?; always eat your food in such a way that it won't turn someone else's stomach; on Sundays try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming; don't sing benna in Sunday School; you mustn't speak to wharf-rat boys, not even to give directions; don't eat fruits on the street, flies will follow you;

12. Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid. original site http//www.reno.quik.com/kenm/jam~1.htm Background.Author Jamaica Kincaid was born in 1949 on the island of Antigua. http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/worldlit/caribbean/jam~1.htm

Jamaica Kincaid original site: http://www.reno.quik.com/kenm/jam~1.htm Background Author Jamaica Kincaid was born in 1949 on the island of Antigua. Then, Elaine Potter Richardson, left the island for New York in 1965, and changed her name in 1973 when her first articles were published. When asked why she did not change her name to an African name, Kincaid replied "the connection I have to Africa is the color of my skin and that doesn't seem enough to have changed it to an African name." As for her new name, "Jamaica is an English corruption of what Columbus called Xaymaca." This renaming is a theme in Kincaids works both fiction and non-fiction. According to Kincaid, renaming is a metaphor for conquest and colonial domination. Reading her work A Small Place one can learn of the history of Antigua, and how the natives really feel about tourists. Kincaid points out all of the beautiful sites on Antigua that the tourist will see like the waters, sunsets, and skies. In extreme contrast though Kincaid also points out the corrupt government, brokedown schoolhouse, and makeshift hospital that the tourist does not see. It is very clear from her works that Kincaid feels strongly against colonialism, development, and industry, on her home island of Antigua, and would much rather see the natives be left alone to their customs. Antigua Antigua is a nine-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies. The natural beauty of the island is spectacular and behind the beautiful landscape is breathtaking. Breathtaking, as in, it will take your breath away when you hear of the horrible things that go on behind the tourist scene. Most of the population on Antigua is poor, and the education is almost non-existant. As companies come in and build, the island becomes even more and more corrupt, and further away from the beautiful, natural place that it once was.

13. Speakers Worldwide, Inc. - Jamaica Kincaid Jamaica Kincaid. Jamaica Kincaid was born and educated in St. John's, Antigua, inthe West Indies, and she now lives with her husband and children in Vermont. http://www.speakersworldwide.com/Kincaid.html

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. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Rolling Stone and The Paris Review. Ms. 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. Her second book, Annie John, published by Plume in 1986, is the story of a young girl's coming of age in the West Indies. Susan Kerney, writing in The New York Times Book Review, thought Annie John's story so "touching and familiar it could be happening in Anchorage, so inevitable it could be happening to any of us, any time, any place. And that's exactly the book's strength, its wisdom, its truth." Of her own literary origins, Ms. Kincaid has said, "It would seem a bit odd for someone like me, coming from the place I come from, not to be interested in what you call richness of description." ( New York Times

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15. Jamaica Kincaid Hates Happy Endings Interview with Mother Jones, by Marilyn Snell. http://www.mojones.com/mother_jones/SO97/snell.html

September/ October 1997 Discuss The Price of Prisons Globalization East Timor ... Advertise Get the MoJournal Weekly email newsletter featuring our latest stories and more. Enter your email to sign up now! Click here for more information about the MoJournal Jamaica Kincaid Hates Happy Endings interview by Marilyn Snell J amaica Kincaid's life reads like an American Cinderella story: born and raised in poverty on the island of Antigua, West Indies; unloved by an unresponsive and often abusive mother who shipped her off to the United States at 17 to be an au pair (Kincaid insists on the word "servant" to describe her employment status); "discovered" on the streets of Manhattan by New Yorker columnist George Trow, who brought her into the fold of the magazine by printing one of her articles in the "Talk of the Town" section; became a celebrated fiction writer ( Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother ) and gardening columnist; married the son of legendary New Yorker editor William Shawn; and moved to the idyll of North Bennington, Vermont, where she now writes, gardens, teaches, and tends to her family, which includes two beautiful children. Why, then, does this 48-year-old woman, who speaks with an accent both lilting and sweet, feel it's her "duty to make everyone a little less happy"?

16. SALON Features | Jamaica Kincaid An interview with the author archived at Salonmagazine.com's website. http://www.salon1999.com/05/features/kincaid.html

T H E S A L O N I N T E R V I E W By DWIGHT GARNER J amaica Kincaid tall, striking, clear-eyed turns heads when she strides into the lobby of New York's swank Royalton Hotel one chilly day in mid-December. It's not that she is trying very hard, dressed comfortably as she is in rumpled khakis, green blazer, and a mustard-colored bandana. Kincaid simply projects a natural authority that attracts attention, and that spills over into her writing. Over the course of only four books the novels "Annie John" (1985) and "Lucy" (1990), the short story collection "At the Bottom of the River" (1984), and her nonfiction book about her native Antigua titled "A Small Place" (1988) Kincaid has carved out a unique place in the American literary landscape. Writing in spare, deceptively simple prose, her fiction vividly and often harrowingly describes the difficult coming-of-age of strong-minded girls who, very much like herself, were born into tropical poverty. Kincaid now lives in Bennington, Vermont with her husband, the composer Allen Shawn, and their two children. In her precise, elegant British West Indies accent, Kincaid spoke freely about her life and work, notably her recent decision to quit her longtime position as a staff writer for The New Yorker which she now describes as "a version of People magazine" and her relationship with Tina Brown. "She's actually got some nice qualities," Kincaid says about her former editor. "But she can't help but be attracted to the coarse and vulgar. I wish there was a vaccine I would sneak it up on her."

17. Kincaid, Jamaica. My Brother. Farrar, $21 (0374-21681-9). kincaid's fiction seethes with an anger that not even the most gifted of novelists, herself included, can invent. How to subscribe to Booklist Magazine. kincaid, jamaica. My Brother. Oct. 1997. http://www.ala.org/booklist/v94/adult/se1/01kincai.html

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18. Jamaica Kincaid - Caribbean Hall Of Fame Short biography. http://caribbean.halloffame.tripod.com/Jamaica_Kincaid.html

Get Five DVDs for $.49 each. Join now. Tell me when this page is updated Jamaica Kincaid Biography Date of Birth (DOB): From: Antigua and Barbuda Best Known for: Author of "Annie John" Bio: Jamaica Kincaid was born in 1949 as Elaine Potter Richardson on the island of Antigua. She lived with her stepfather, a carpenter, and her mother. As an only child, Kincaid maintained a close relationship with her mother until the age of nine, when the first of her three brothers were born. In 1965 when she was sent to Westchester, New York to work as an au pair. In Antigua, she completed her secondary education under the British system due to Antigua's status as a British colony until 1967. She went on to study photography at the New York School for Social Research after leaving the family for which she worked, and also attended Franconia College in New Hampshire for a year. Afiwi.com's complete profile on Jamaica Kincaid back to the Caribbean Hall of Fame Home Search: for an extended Biography with photographs and links related to Jamaica Kincaid and other famous Antiguans and notable West Indians visit Afiwi.com's offical Caribbean Hall of Fame Webmaster - Brad Tafa Hemmings

19. Jamaica Kincaid, Merle Hodge, George Lamming. English Literature Essays, Contrib The Two Worlds of the Child A study of the novels of three West Indian writers; jamaica kincaid, Merle Hodge, and George Lamming http://www.english-literature.org/essays/kincaid_hodge_lamming.html

Jamaica Kincaid, Merle Hodge, George Lamming: The Two Worlds of the Child: A study of the novels of three West Indian writers; Jamaica Kincaid, Merle Hodge, and George Lamming by Tannistho Ghosh and Priyanka Basu English Literature Home Page Course Summary English Literature Resources English Literature Essays ... Contact Us Jamaica Kincaid Merle Hodge 1944 - George Lamming Behold the Child among his new-born blisses A six years' Darling of a pigmy size! See, where 'mid work of his own hand he lies, Fretted by sallies of his mother's kisses, With light upon him from his father's eyes! See, at his feet, some little plan or chart, Some fragment from his dream of human life, Shaped by himself with newly-learned art.' [1] As Ngugi put it in Decolonizing the Mind Children who encountered literature in colonial schools and universities were thus experiencing the world defined and reflected in the European experience of history. Their entire way of looking at the world, even the world of the immediate environment, was Euro-centric. Europe was the centre of Universe. The earth moved around the European intellectual scholarly axis. The images children encountered in literature were reinforced by their study of history and geography, and science and technology where Europe was, once again, the centre. This in turn fitted well with the cultural imperatives of British imperialism.

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T H E S A L O N I N T E R V I E W By DWIGHT GARNER J amaica Kincaid tall, striking, clear-eyed turns heads when she strides into the lobby of New York's swank Royalton Hotel one chilly day in mid-December. It's not that she is trying very hard, dressed comfortably as she is in rumpled khakis, green blazer, and a mustard-colored bandana. Kincaid simply projects a natural authority that attracts attention, and that spills over into her writing. Over the course of only four books the novels "Annie John" (1985) and "Lucy" (1990), the short story collection "At the Bottom of the River" (1984), and her nonfiction book about her native Antigua titled "A Small Place" (1988) Kincaid has carved out a unique place in the American literary landscape. Writing in spare, deceptively simple prose, her fiction vividly and often harrowingly describes the difficult coming-of-age of strong-minded girls who, very much like herself, were born into tropical poverty. Kincaid now lives in Bennington, Vermont with her husband, the composer Allen Shawn, and their two children. In her precise, elegant British West Indies accent, Kincaid spoke freely about her life and work, notably her recent decision to quit her longtime position as a staff writer for The New Yorker which she now describes as "a version of People magazine" and her relationship with Tina Brown. "She's actually got some nice qualities," Kincaid says about her former editor. "But she can't help but be attracted to the coarse and vulgar. I wish there was a vaccine I would sneak it up on her."

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