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Transcript: Jamaica Kincaid Discusses Her Latest Novel
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- NPR Morning Edition
- Article date:
- January 16, 1996
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Jamaica Kincaid discusses her new novel, "Autobiography of My Mother"
. She says her ideas were inspired by the women in her family and
her literary models included Jane Austen, the Brontes and George Eliott.
BOB EDWARDS, Host: Jamaica Kincaid's [sp] new book The Autobiography
of My Mother, is not what it seems. It's not an autobiography; it'
s a novel. The narrator is a 70-year-old woman named Xuela Claudette
Richardson [sp] who lives on an island in the West Indies. And she
didn't even know her mother. As Xuela says in the first line of the
book `My mother died at the moment I was born.'
Jamaica Kincaid grew up in the Caribbean, in the ...