Jamaica Kincaid
Auteur de Annie John
A propos de l'auteur
Jamaica Kincaid came to the United States in 1966 as a free-lance writer and is now on staff at the New Yorker. Her first volume of stories, At the Bottom of the River (1983), depicts men and women alienated from each other by conflict, physical separation, or death. The story "My Mother" vividly afficher plus describes the painful separation between mother and daughter; and the stories in Annie John (1985) clearly reveal that the world of the past cannot be recaptured. Kincaid's poetic use of language and everyday images allows the reader to experience ordinary events with a new and heightened sensitivity. Kincaid is a relatively new writer whose works are beginning to receive critical attention. (Bowker Author Biography) Jamaica Kincaid, novelist, memoirist, & essayist, was born in St. John's, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, and My Brother, all published by FSG. She lives with her family in Vermont. (Publisher Provided) afficher moins
Crédit image: Embassy of the U.S./Israel (Distinguished American Speaker Series)
Œuvres de Jamaica Kincaid
The Best American Travel Writing 2005 (2005) — Directeur de publication — 213 exemplaires, 1 critique
My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love (1998) — Directeur de publication — 71 exemplaires, 1 critique
Wingless 2 exemplaires
Seattle Now & Then 1 exemplaire
Mother 1 exemplaire
The Poor Visitor 1 exemplaire
My Favorite Flowers 1 exemplaire
World Writers Today 1 exemplaire
Figures in the Distance 1 exemplaire
Kincaid, Jamaica Archive 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories (2011) — Contributeur — 846 exemplaires, 21 critiques
Wayward Girls & Wicked Women: An Anthology of Subversive Stories (1986) — Contributeur — 536 exemplaires, 8 critiques
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contributeur — 529 exemplaires, 4 critiques
The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Short Stories (1994) — Contributeur — 493 exemplaires, 2 critiques
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (2001) — Contributeur — 452 exemplaires, 4 critiques
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Contributeur — 387 exemplaires, 3 critiques
Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle (1972) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 344 exemplaires, 9 critiques
The New Gothic: A Collection of Contemporary Gothic Fiction (1991) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 264 exemplaires, 2 critiques
Sudden Fiction International: Sixty Short-Short Stories (1989) — Contributeur — 215 exemplaires, 1 critique
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present (2007) — Contributeur — 194 exemplaires, 2 critiques
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Contributeur — 164 exemplaires
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Contributeur — 124 exemplaires, 3 critiques
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995) — Contributeur — 116 exemplaires
Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (1992) — Contributeur — 102 exemplaires
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Contributeur — 94 exemplaires, 1 critique
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contributeur — 88 exemplaires
The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World (2002) — Contributeur — 84 exemplaires, 1 critique
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Contributeur — 81 exemplaires
Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction (2000) — Contributeur — 79 exemplaires
On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library (2021) — Contributeur — 70 exemplaires
More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women (2004) — Contributeur — 63 exemplaires
How I Learned to Cook and Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships (2004) — Contributeur — 58 exemplaires
In the Land of the Blue Poppies: The Collected Plant-Hunting Writings of Frank Kingdon Ward (2003) — Préface — 52 exemplaires
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (1997) — Contributeur — 47 exemplaires
Her True-True Name : an anthology of women's writing from the Caribbean (1989) — Contributeur — 45 exemplaires
A Way Out of No Way: Writing about Growing Up Black in America (1996) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires, 2 critiques
Mending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers (2003) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires
Centers of the Self: Stories by Black American Women, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (1994) — Contributeur — 28 exemplaires
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (2023) — Contributeur — 24 exemplaires, 1 critique
The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love (1998) — Contributeur — 9 exemplaires
Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing — Contributeur — 8 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Kincaid, Jamaica
- Nom légal
- Potter Richardson, Elaine Cynthia
- Date de naissance
- 1949-05-25
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Antigua i Barbuda
- Pays (pour la carte)
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Lieu de naissance
- St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda
- Lieux de résidence
- St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda (birth)
New York, New York, USA
New Hampshire, USA
North Bennington, Vermont, USA - Études
- New School for Social Research (Photography)
Franconia College (New Hampshire) - Professions
- fact checker (Forbes magazine)
staff writer (The New Yorker)
creative writing teacher (Harvard University)
novelist
gardener
gardening writer (tout afficher 7)
professor - Relations
- Shawn, Allen (husband | divorced)
- Organisations
- The New Yorker
Harvard University - Prix et distinctions
- Lannan Literary Award (Fiction, 1999)
Paris Review Hadada Prize (2022)
Morton Dauwen Zabel Award (1984)
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (1997)
Prix Femina étranger (2000)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 2004) (tout afficher 11)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009)
Clifton Fadiman Medal (2010)
American Book Award (2014)
Dan David Prize (2017)
Royal Society of Literature International Writer (2019) - Agent
- The Wylie Agency (UK) Ltd
- Courte biographie
- Jamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in St. John's, Antigua (part of the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda). She lives in North Bennington, Vermont and is Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence at Harvard University during the academic year.
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Membres
Discussions
YA, S. American girl moves to U.S., Irish friend, sexual discovery à Name that Book (Novembre 2014)
Critiques
Talk Stories par Jamaica Kincaid
Horrible writing-why was this ever published?
A short (and I mean: really, really short!) story written by Antiguan-American writer Jamaica Kincaid. But this tiny read packs a powerful punch!
This little tale isn’t in the traditional story format but more like a dictatorial poem. It contains a long list of commands from a domineering mom to her daughter, all mandatory to ensure that the daughter doesn’t become “the slut I know you are so bent on becoming.” Needless to say, the list includes wonderful, practical suggestions (*cough, cough*) such as how to wash clothes or smile politely at someone you don’t like or walk like a lady.
The writing style is what elevates this little story from good to great. The whole story is written in a single paragraph, with each order being separated by a semicolon. Almost the entire writing is in the second person, directed from the mother to the daughter. There are just two first person statements when the daughter manages to get a word in the conversation, these being written in italics. The last sentence delivers the perfect ending!
Recommended if you are looking for an unusual story tackling the usual issue of how women “must” fit into society, and how this restrictive social conditioning begins at home.
4.25 stars.
This story was originally published in the June 26, 1978 issue of The New Yorker, and I read it from the archives of the magazine using this link:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1978/06/26/girl
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This little tale isn’t in the traditional story format but more like a dictatorial poem. It contains a long list of commands from a domineering mom to her daughter, all mandatory to ensure that the daughter doesn’t become “the slut I know you are so bent on becoming.” Needless to say, the list includes wonderful, practical suggestions (*cough, cough*) such as how to wash clothes or smile politely at someone you don’t like or walk like a lady.
The writing style is what elevates this little story from good to great. The whole story is written in a single paragraph, with each order being separated by a semicolon. Almost the entire writing is in the second person, directed from the mother to the daughter. There are just two first person statements when the daughter manages to get a word in the conversation, these being written in italics. The last sentence delivers the perfect ending!
Recommended if you are looking for an unusual story tackling the usual issue of how women “must” fit into society, and how this restrictive social conditioning begins at home.
4.25 stars.
This story was originally published in the June 26, 1978 issue of The New Yorker, and I read it from the archives of the magazine using this link:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1978/06/26/girl
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Connect with me through:
My Blog | The StoryGraph | Facebook | Twitter… (plus d'informations)
A truly heart-wrenching tale of an African American woman struggling with the loss of her mother and the absence of love in her life.
Beautiful art and great stories to go with each letter of the alphabet
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- Évaluation
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- ISBN
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