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
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Œuvres de Jamaica Kincaid
My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love (1998) — Directeur de publication — 68 exemplaires
My Mother 4 exemplaires
Wingless 2 exemplaires
Seattle Now & Then 1 exemplaire
My Favorite Plant 1 exemplaire
World Writers Today 1 exemplaire
The Poor Visitor 1 exemplaire
My Favorite Flowers 1 exemplaire
Mother 1 exemplaire
Figures in the Distance 1 exemplaire
Aucun titre 1 exemplaire
Kincaid, Jamaica Archive 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Wayward Girls & Wicked Women: An Anthology of Subversive Stories (1986) — Contributeur — 526 exemplaires
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Contributeur — 511 exemplaires
Writers on Writing: Collected Essays from the New York Times (2001) — Contributeur — 446 exemplaires
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Contributeur — 380 exemplaires
The New Gothic: A Collection of Contemporary Gothic Fiction (1991) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 257 exemplaires
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present (2007) — Contributeur — 184 exemplaires
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Contributeur — 159 exemplaires
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Contributeur — 121 exemplaires
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995) — Contributeur — 114 exemplaires
Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (1992) — Contributeur — 99 exemplaires
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Contributeur — 93 exemplaires
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contributeur — 83 exemplaires
Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction (2000) — Contributeur — 80 exemplaires
The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World (2002) — Contributeur — 80 exemplaires
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Contributeur — 75 exemplaires
On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library (2021) — Contributeur — 64 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 — 51 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 — 43 exemplaires
A Way Out of No Way: Writing about Growing Up Black in America (1996) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires
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 — 17 exemplaires
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
Lucy: A Novel par Jamaica Kincaid
In this short novel, 19-year-old Lucy leaves her home in Antigua and comes to America to be an au pair for a family of four young children. The book is set over the stretch of a year and follows her experiences as a new immigrant. Lucy has come to America to get away from stifling relationships and a particularly toxic relationship with her martyr of a mother, but she cannot really connect with anyone, drifting through relationships with men and even holding her only friend, Peggy, at arm’s length. I felt I wanted to know more about why she left home, filled her with the rage that seethes through her, numbing her from seizing the day, enjoying the wonderous moments of her life, and wallowing in her never-named unfulfilled expectations. The most interesting observation to me: “Everyone knew that men have no morals, that they do not know how to behave, that they do not know how to treat other people. It was why men like laws so much; it was why they had to invent such things--they need a guide.” Food for thought for sure.… (plus d'informations)
This author is very angry, and I felt chastised! First among various reasons for being a tourist! It should be required reading for anyone vacationing in the Caribbean, where the tourists have plenty and the locals do not. Take for instance, water. Tourists can swim in it, and then bathe in it, and drink as much as they like. But many islands have no water source so the locals have to conserve every last drop. From there, the author delves into how the residents of Antigua came to live there—slave ships, and the dire faults in the English empire. It’s a tongue-lashing for sure.… (plus d'informations)
Honest and Raw.
I read this for a Postcolonial literature class at CU Boulder. While I know a lot of folks can't get past the bitter, I think the point is that most of us are reading this from the comfort of privilege, especially those of us privileged enough to be reading it in a university.
I love the message . We can't "get over" our past. We can't turn away from our history. But we can meet each other in the middle, acknowledge our past and embrace our history - which might help all of us start acting a little more human.
Two thumbs up.… (plus d'informations)
I read this for a Postcolonial literature class at CU Boulder. While I know a lot of folks can't get past the bitter, I think the point is that most of us are reading this from the comfort of privilege, especially those of us privileged enough to be reading it in a university.
I love the message . We can't "get over" our past. We can't turn away from our history. But we can meet each other in the middle, acknowledge our past and embrace our history - which might help all of us start acting a little more human.
Two thumbs up.… (plus d'informations)
A young au pair from the Caribbean, working in New York grows into womanhood and finds her place in the world, but not easily.
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- ISBN
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