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Required & Recommended Reading:
Kincaid:
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Other Internet Resources:
Kincaid:
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- Monica Drake, "Jamaica Kincaid's Antigua" (New York Times 13 July 2016, via Repeating Islands)
- Biography/General: Postcolonial Studies @ Emory | Wikipedia| Postcolonial and
Postimperial Literature| BBC World Service Women Writers
- Interviews: with Dwight Garner (Salon, 1996) | Alyssa Loh (Salon, 2013) | Hannah Levintova ("Our Sassy Black Friend": Mother Jones, 2013)
- Jamaica Kincaid on Santa Monica public radio station KCRW 's "Bookworm"
program:
- (3/20/97) "A
Small Place": Kincaid discusses the cultural contradictions
of late capitalism. The writer, who grew up in poverty on Antigua,
discusses her ambivalent acceptance of American wealth.
- (1/8/98) My
Brother: A close look at the waves of passion and neutrality
that comprise the style of this elegy on the death of the author's
brother.
- (12/9/99) My
Garden: Jamaica Kincaid's beautiful notes on gardening
uncover the same imperialistic and racist assumptions she exposes
in her fiction--Kincaid on the underside of Eden.
- (3/2/00) "Women,
Writing and the Imagination": "I grew up in such a powerful
matriarchy," says Kincaid, "that I've never considered patriarchy
as something to be respected.
- Related Non-Fiction:
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