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040 |a N$T  |b eng  |e pn 
050 4 |a PR9275.A583  |b K564 2005eb 
100 1 |a Bouson, J. Brooks. 
245 1 0 |a Jamaica Kincaid :  |b writing memory, writing back to the mother /  |c J. Brooks Bouson. 
260 |a Albany :  |b State University of New York Press,  |c ©2005. 
300 |a 1 online resource (ix, 242 pages) 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-231) and index. 
505 0 |a When you think of me, think of my life -- I had embarked on something called self-invention : artistic beginnings in "Antigua crossings" and At the bottom of the river -- The way I became a writer was that my mother wrote my life for me and told it to me : living in the shadow of the mother in Annie John -- As I looked at this sentence a great wave of shame came over me and I wept and wept : the art of memory, anger, and despair in Lucy -- Imagine the bitterness and the shame in me as I tell you this : the political is personal in A small place and "On seeing England for the first time" -- I would bear children but I would never be a mother to them : writing back to the contemptuous mother in The autobiography of my mother -- I shall never forget him because his life is the one I did not have : remembering her brother's failed life in My brother -- Like him and his own father before him, I have a line drawn through me : imagining the life of the absent father in Mr. Potter. 
600 1 0 |a Kincaid, Jamaica  |x Criticism and interpretation. 
600 1 4 |a Kincaid, Jamaica. 
600 1 7 |a Kincaid, Jamaica. 
650 0 |a Women and literature  |x History  |y 20th century.  |z Antigua and Barbuda  |z Antigua 
650 0 |a Mothers and daughters in literature. 
650 0 |a Memory in literature. 
650 7 |a LITERARY CRITICISM  |x American  |x General. 
650 7 |a Literature. 
650 7 |a Memory in literature. 
650 7 |a Mothers and daughters in literature. 
650 7 |a Women and literature. 
651 0 |a Antiqua  |x In literature. 
651 7 |a Antigua and Barbuda  |z Antigua. 
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