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Article: Jamaica Kincaid: Where the Land Meets the Body.(Review)
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- African American Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
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Moira Ferguson. Jamaica Kincaid: Where the Land Meets the Body. Charlottesville: UP of Virginia, 1994. 206 pp. $16.95.
Moira Ferguson's book Jamaica Kincaid: Where the Land Meets the Body offers an energized exploration of the concept of British colonialism in Antigua in the works of Jamaica Kincaid. It does so through the assumption that this theme works in part through deflection and indirection, finding its most dramatic manifestation in the mother-daughter relationship: "Kincaid's female protagonists and their biological mother are crucially formative yet always mediated by intimations of life as colonized subjects." Implicit in this formulation is the notion ...
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Article: Jamaica Kincaid
Encyclopedia of World Biography;
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...Jamaica Kincaid A significant voice in contemporary literature, Jamaica Kincaid (born 1949) is widely praised for her works ... personal, stylistic, and honest writings. Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson on May 25 ...
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