Jamaica Kincaid's Writings of History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jamaica Kincaid's Writings of History write by Antonia Purk. This book was released on 2023-09-04. Jamaica Kincaid's Writings of History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jamaica Kincaid's works consistently explore how colonial history affects contemporary everyday lives. Throughout her novels, short fiction, and non-fictional essays, Kincaid's texts engage with history through its medial representations, which are starkly determined by colonial perspectives. This study examines the entanglements of temporalities in current perceptions of the past and how literary text intervenes in historical consciousness. With a focus on the media text, image, and the human body, the chapters of this book demonstrate how Kincaid's "poetics of impermanence" counter colonial representations of history with strategies of ambiguity, repetition, and redirection. Kincaid's texts repeat and revise aspects of colonial history - a process that decenters the totality of historical colonial ideology and replaces it with self-determined versions of the past through a multiplication of perspectives and voices.
Jamaica Kincaid’s Writings of History
Jamaica Kincaid’s Writings of History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jamaica Kincaid’s Writings of History write by Antonia Purk. This book was released on 2023-09-18. Jamaica Kincaid’s Writings of History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Jamaica Kincaid’s works consistently explore how colonial history affects contemporary everyday lives. Throughout her novels, short fiction, and non-fictional essays, Kincaid’s texts engage with history through its medial representations, which are starkly determined by colonial perspectives. This study examines the entanglements of temporalities in current perceptions of the past and how literary text intervenes in historical consciousness. With a focus on the media text, image, and the human body, the chapters of this book demonstrate how Kincaid’s "poetics of impermanence" counter colonial representations of history with strategies of ambiguity, repetition, and redirection. Kincaid’s texts repeat and revise aspects of colonial history – a process that decenters the totality of historical colonial ideology and replaces it with self-determined versions of the past through a multiplication of perspectives and voices.
A Small Place
A Small Place - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Small Place write by Jamaica Kincaid. This book was released on 2000-04-28. A Small Place available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ." So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up. Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies.
Lucy
Lucy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lucy write by Jamaica Kincaid. This book was released on 2002-09-04. Lucy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--available now in an e-book edition. Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to America to work as an au pair for a wealthy couple. She begins to notice cracks in their beautiful façade at the same time that the mysteries of own sexuality begin to unravel. Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new heroine who is destined to win a place of honor in contemporary fiction.
Jamaica Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jamaica Kincaid write by J. Brooks Bouson. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Jamaica Kincaid available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Haunted by the memories of her powerfully destructive mother, Jamaica Kincaid is a writer out of necessity. Born Elaine Potter Richardson, Kincaid grew up in the West Indies in the shadow of her deeply contemptuous and abusive mother, Annie Drew. Drawing heavily on Kincaid's many remarks on the autobiographical sources of her writings, J. Brooks Bouson investigates the ongoing construction of Kincaid's autobiographical and political identities. She focuses attention on what many critics find so enigmatic and what lies at the heart of Kincaid's fiction and nonfiction work: the "mother mystery." Bouson demonstrates, through careful readings, how Kincaid uses her writing to transform her feelings of shame into pride as she wins the praise of an admiring critical establishment and an ever-growing reading public.
