With the publication of her novel "Annie John" in 1985, Jamaica
Kincaid entered the ranks of the best novelists of her generation.
Her three autobiographical novels, "Annie John," " Lucy," and
"Autobiography of My Mother," and collection of short stories, "At
the Bottom of the River," touch on the universal theme of
coming-of-age and the female adolescent's need to sever her ties to
her mother. This angst is couched in the social landscape of
post-colonial Antigua, a small Caribbean island whose legacy of
racism affects Kincaid's protagonists. Her fiction rewrites the
history of the Caribbean from a West Indies perspective and this
milieu colors the experiences of her characters.
Following a biographical chapter, Paravisini-Gebert traces the
development of Kincaid's craft as a writer. Each of the novels and
the collection of short stories is discussed in a separate chapter
that includes sections on plot, character, theme, and an alternate
critical approach from which to read the novel, such as feminist. A
complete primary and secondary bibliography and lists of selected
reviews of Kincaid's work complete the study.
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