MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2004027305
003 DLC
005 20060517165133.0
008 041117s2005 nyu b s001 0 eng
010 $a 2004027305
020 $a0791465233 (alk. paper)
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050 00 $aPR9275.A583$bK564 2005
082 00 $a813/.54$222
100 1 $aBouson, J. Brooks.
245 10 $aJamaica Kincaid :$bwriting memory, writing back to the mother /$cJ. Brooks Bouson.
260 $aAlbany :$bState University of New York Press,$cc2005.
300 $aix, 242 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 221-231) and index.
505 0 $aWhen 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 10 $aKincaid, Jamaica$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aWomen and literature$zAntigua$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aMothers and daughters in literature.
651 0 $aAntigua$xIn literature.
650 0 $aMemory in literature.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip053/2004027305.html