1. Kincaid, Jamaica LUCY At Bookfever.com Kincaid, Jamaica LUCY New York Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990. at bookfever.com http://www.bookfever.com/Book_Listing/Kincaid_Jamaica_LUCY_book_3118.html

2. Kincaid, Jamaica LiteraryTraveler.com Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson on May 25, 1949 in the capital of Antigua and Barbuda, which is called St. Johns. http://www.literarytraveler.com/authors/kincaid_jamaica.aspx

Premium Account Info Advertise with us About LiteraryTraveler.com Home ... Contact Us Browse Articles By: Date Posted Author Issues or Search Articles: Advertisement: Kincaid, Jamaica by Jennifer Ciotta Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson on May 25, 1949 in the capital of Antigua and Barbuda, which is called St. Johns. Antigua and Barbuda are small islands in the Leeward Island chain; today they are known for their pink sand beaches and high class resorts. She lived with her mother, who doted on young Jamaica, but her father was absentee thus her stepfather took on this role. She flourished in her studies, since she was usually at the top of her class, learning at the Princess Margaret School, winning her entrance by scholarship. Under the strict British education system, the author has said in a past interview with Salon magazine, she felt she was being prepared for an MFA at a young age. Jamaica read classics by British authors such as Kipling and Carlyle. She also observed her mother who read extensively, in particular biographies of famous people.

3. Kincaid, Jamaica A Small Place, Annie John A Novel, Autobiography of My Mother, The Best American Travel Writing 2005 (The Best American Series), My Brother, My Garden (Book), Lucy A Novel http://www.artistactoractress.com/author/k/kincaid_jamaica.html

Kincaid, Jamaica Average customer rating: Kincaid's Mad as Hell, and She's Not Going to Take it Anymore The lovely tourists A Small Mind Writes A Small Place An island paradise It is a Small place A Small Place Jamaica Kincaid Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: Rethinking Globalization: Teaching for Justice in an Unjust World Nervous Conditions Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled Lucy: A Novel ASIN: Book Description A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antiguaby the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after himwhy not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ." So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up.

4. Jamaica Kincaid Kincaid, Jamaica. A Small Place. New York Penguin, 1988. (Book Cover) (small.gif) Perry, Donna. Backtalk Women Writers Speak Out. New Brunswick Rutgers UP, 1993.. http://www.english.emory.edu/Bahri/Kincaid.html

Jamaica Kincaid Biography Major Themes "I was always being told I should be something, and then my whole upbringing was something I was not: it was English." (Cudjoe 219) "Antigua is a small place, a small island...It was settled by Christopher Columbus in 1493. Not too long after, it was settled by human rubbish from Europe, who used enslaved by noble and exalted human beings from Africa...to satisfy their desire for wealth and power, to feel better about their own miserable existence, so that they could be less lonely and empty- a European disease" (80-81). Antigua became self-governing in 1967, but did not achieve the status of an independent nation within the Commonwealth until 1981. Within the structure of the British educational system imposed upon Antiguans, Kincaid grew to "detest everything about England, except the literature" (Vorda 79). She felt first-hand the negative effects of British colonialism as the colonists attempted to turn Antigua "into England" and the natives "into English" without regard for the native culture or homeland (Kincaid 24). The effects of colonialism serve as the major theme for A Small Place in which Kincaid expresses her anger both at the colonists and at the Antiguans for failing to fully achieve their independence. She feels that Antiguans failed to adopt the positive aspects of colonialism, for instance a good educational system which might help the population to better their lives. This inability to promote the importance of education and hope for the future is symbolized in the failure to rebuild Antigua's only library, St. John's, which was "damaged in the earthquake of 1974" and years later, still carries the sign "REPAIRS ARE PENDING" (Kincaid 9).

5. Jamaica Kincaid - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Kincaid, Jamaica Alternative names Richardson, Elaine Cynthia Potter (birth name) Short description Novelist, gardening writer, gardener Date of birth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_Kincaid

Jamaica Kincaid From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Jamaica Kincaid (born May 25, 1949, as Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson ) is an American novelist, gardener, and gardening writer. She lives with her family in North Bennington Vermont , during the summers and teaches at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California , during the academic year. Contents Early life Writing career Family Religion ... edit Early life Born in St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda , Elaine Richardson lived with her mother and stepfather , a carpenter , until 1965. In Antigua , she completed her secondary education under the British system, due to Antigua's status as a British colony until 1966. She moved to New York City at the age of 16 and worked for a family as an au pair . She worked as a fact checker at Forbes magazine, where she became close friends with reporter, Marsha Daniel, and her husband, Myles Ludwig, then the editorial director of Art Direction magazine. She also befriended Peter Ainsley, the music critic for Women's Wear Daily , who later worked as a writer for Time magazine.

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7. Kincaid, Jamaica Jamaica Kincaid; Wallace, JoAnn “De-Scribing The Water-Babies ‘The Child’ in Post-Colonial Theory,” in Chris Tiffin and Alan Lawson (eds.) De-Scribing Empire Post http://www2.bc.edu/~rappleb/Kingsley-Latest/KKincaidJamaica.html

Jamaica Kincaid Wallace, Jo-Ann �De-Scribing The Water-Babies : �The Child� in Post-Colonial Theory,� in Chris Tiffin and Alan Lawson (eds.) De-Scribing Empire: Post-colonialism and Textuality (London and New York: Routledge, 1994): 171-184. Wallace argues that whereas the child in The Water-Babies is the center of educational, social reform and imperialist debate, he is depoliticized in the 1984 abridged Puffin Classics edition and repoliticized in Jamaica Kincaid�s 1983 short story �Wingless�. The Puffin edition, mirroring post-colonialist guilt, �is paradigmatic of �the West�s� continuing and contradictory investment in a vision of child hood as a universal unmarked by class, place, or history�. However, �Wingless�, �disallows such a disavowal of historical and geographical specificity by returning both the text of The Water-Babies and the child reader to colonialist history� (182). The Water-Babies Kincaid, Jamaica Imperialism Colonialism ... Children

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Build your own FREE website at Tripod.com Share: Facebook Twitter Digg reddit document.write(lycos_ad['leaderboard']); document.write(lycos_ad['leaderboard2']); Jamaica Kincaid Biography Date of Birth (DOB): From: Antigua and Barbuda Best Known for: Author of "Annie John" Bio: Jamaica Kincaid was born in 1949 as Elaine Potter Richardson on the island of Antigua. She lived with her stepfather, a carpenter, and her mother. As an only child, Kincaid maintained a close relationship with her mother until the age of nine, when the first of her three brothers were born. In 1965 when she was sent to Westchester, New York to work as an au pair. In Antigua, she completed her secondary education under the British system due to Antigua's status as a British colony until 1967. She went on to study photography at the New York School for Social Research after leaving the family for which she worked, and also attended Franconia College in New Hampshire for a year. Afiwi.com's complete profile on Jamaica Kincaid back to the Caribbean Hall of Fame Home Search: for an extended Biography with photographs and links related to Jamaica Kincaid and other famous Antiguans and notable West Indians visit Afiwi.com's

9. Jamaica Kincaid Bio A Brief Biography of Jamaica Kincaid David P. Lichtenstein '99, Brown University, Contributing Editor, Caribbean Web. Jamaica Kincaid's twisted quest for self began with her May 25 http://postcolonialweb.org/caribbean/kincaid/bio.html

A Brief Biography of Jamaica Kincaid David P. Lichtenstein '99 , Brown University, Contributing Editor, Caribbean Web Jamaica Kincaid's twisted quest for self began with her May 25, 1949 birth in Antigua. She was then christened Elaine Potter Richardson, but when she fled the island at the age of seventeen, she left her family as well as her name behind and entered North America as Jamaica Kincaid. Her life should seem familiar to those who know her heavily autobiographical work. She worked first in New York City as an au pair, for an upper class family much like the one pictured in Lucy . She left this work to study photography at the New School for Social Research and then went on to Franconia College in New Hampshire (but did not take a degree) before returning to New York. There she became a regular contributor to the New Yorker magazine, writing for nearly twenty years (1976-1995) before the arrival of new management convinced her to leave. She now resides in Bennington Vermont with her husband and children. References Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series

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11. Kincaid, Jamaica - Hutchinson Encyclopedia Article About Kincaid US writer born in the West Indies. She has won recognition for her collections of short stories, such as At the Bottom of the River 1983, and Annie John 1985, a short story cycle. http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Kincaid, Jamaica

12. Jamaica Kincaid AUTHOR PAGE . HOME . JAMAICA KINCAID. PREVIOUS VISIT Air Date WMHT, Channel 17, Saturday, May 29, 1999, 600 p.m. Air Date WMHQ, Channel 45, Wednesday, June 2, 1999, 930 p.m http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/kincaid.html

AUTHOR PAGE HOME JAMAICA KINCAID PREVIOUS VISIT: Air Date: WMHT, Channel 17, Saturday, May 29, 1999, 6:00 p.m. Air Date: WMHQ, Channel 45, Wednesday, June 2, 1999, 9:30 p.m Jamaica Kincaid's most recent work is the novel The Autobiography of My Mother, which was released in January 1996. Her first three books At the Bottom of the River Annie John (1985), and A Small Place (1988)focus on life in her birthplace, Antigua, West Indies. In these books, Kincaid employs a highly poetic literary style celebrated for its rhythms, imagery, and characterization. With the publication of At the Bottom of the River , Kincaid was hailed as an important new voice in American fiction. Milton wrote in the New York Times Book Review , that Kincaid's tales "have all the force of illuminating, and even prophetic power," and David Leavitt noted in the Village Voice that her stories move "with grace and ease from the mundane to the enormous." Henry Louis Gates Jr., a distinguished critic and black studies scholar compared Kincaid's work to that of Toni Morrison and Wole Soyinka: "There is a self-contained world which they explore with great detail. Not to chart the existence of the world, but to show that human emotions manifest themselves everywhere." Kincaid has received numerous awards and honors, including the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters for

13. SALON Features | Jamaica Kincaid An interview with the author archived at Salonmagazine.com s website. http://www.salon.com/05/features/kincaid.html

T H E S A L O N I N T E R V I E W By DWIGHT GARNER J amaica Kincaid tall, striking, clear-eyed turns heads when she strides into the lobby of New York's swank Royalton Hotel one chilly day in mid-December. It's not that she is trying very hard, dressed comfortably as she is in rumpled khakis, green blazer, and a mustard-colored bandana. Kincaid simply projects a natural authority that attracts attention, and that spills over into her writing. Over the course of only four books the novels "Annie John" (1985) and "Lucy" (1990), the short story collection "At the Bottom of the River" (1984), and her nonfiction book about her native Antigua titled "A Small Place" (1988) Kincaid has carved out a unique place in the American literary landscape. Writing in spare, deceptively simple prose, her fiction vividly and often harrowingly describes the difficult coming-of-age of strong-minded girls who, very much like herself, were born into tropical poverty. Kincaid now lives in Bennington, Vermont with her husband, the composer Allen Shawn, and their two children. In her precise, elegant British West Indies accent, Kincaid spoke freely about her life and work, notably her recent decision to quit her longtime position as a staff writer for The New Yorker which she now describes as "a version of People magazine" and her relationship with Tina Brown. "She's actually got some nice qualities," Kincaid says about her former editor. "But she can't help but be attracted to the coarse and vulgar. I wish there was a vaccine I would sneak it up on her."

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15. Jamaica Kincaid (Caribbean American Author) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia Jamaica Kincaid (Caribbean American author), May 25, 1949St. John’s, AntiguaCaribbean American writer whose essays, stories, and novels are evocative portrayals of family http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/318011/Jamaica-Kincaid

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16. Kincaid, Jamaica Definition Of Kincaid, Jamaica In The Free Online Encyclopedia. Kincaid, Jamaica, 1949–, West Indian–American writer, b. Antigua as Elaine Potter Richardson. She immigrated to the United States at 16 and later became a U.S. citizen. http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Kincaid, Jamaica

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20. Jamaica Kincaid Hates Happy Endings | Mother Jones J amaica Kincaid's life reads like an American Cinderella story born and raised in poverty on the island of Antigua, West Indies; unloved by an unresponsive and often abusive http://motherjones.com/politics/1997/09/jamaica-kincaid-hates-happy-endings

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