The autobiography of my mother analysis paper

Jamaica Kincaid’sThe Autobiography of my Mother is a book that was being discarded from our local English library that I pounced on when I discovered it in the collection of books that hadn’t been borrowed for years and therefore must make way for others.

I already have two slim novellas by the same author that sit unread, but something about this novel, for it is fiction, despite the playful title, insisted it should be read at once. Not just a fabulous cover, which is repeated inside as chapter headings, each chapter reveals a section of the photo, until the last one revealing the entire portrait – but the comments from various publications and writers who sang its praise back in 1996 when it was first published.

“Writing in precise, lyrical prose that uses the repetition of images and words to build a musical rhythm, Jamaica Kincaid conjures up the world of Dominica in all its b

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A REVIEW OF JAMAICA KINCAID'S THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY MOTHER

A REVIEW OF JAMAICA KINCAID’S THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY MOTHER By: IRVING ANDRE Jean Rhys’ fiction may have inspired at least one writer to write a book about adolescence in Dominica. Antiguan-born writer, Jamaica Kincaid, has written about growing up in Dominica in the mid-twentieth century. Entitled, The Autobiography of My Mother, Kincaid’s publication, like Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, traces the tribulations of a woman who must wade through life without the guidance, support and love of her mother. Rhy’s Antoinette Cosway loses her mother through madness very early on in her life. Kincaid’s heroine, Xuela Claudette Richardson, loses her Kalinago mother at childbirth. However, Xuela has no comforting nurse, like Christophine, to nurture and guide her to adulthood. Rather, loss of her mother throws her into an emotional tailspin which increases as she drifts from one household to another. Following her mother’s death, Xu

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The Autobiography of My Mother, first published in 1996, is a novel written by Antiguan-American author Jamaica Kincaid. Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson in 1949 in the capital city of St. John’s, Antigua. She fryst vatten the author of fem novels, a short story collection, fem nonfiction books, a children’s book, and an array of uncollected short stories and essays, Kincaid was shortlisted for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1994 and has been elected to both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Kincaid’s own life experiences living in poverty in Antigua as a child and her position in the world as a woman have been the basis of