Jamaica Kincaid

Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. A classic coming-of-age story in the tradition of The Catcher in the Rye and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Kincaid's novel focuses on a universal, tragic, and often comic theme: the loss of childhood.An adored only child, Annie has until recently lived an idyllic life. She is inseparable from her beautiful mother, a powerful presence, who is the very center of the little girl's existence. Loved and cherished, Annie grows and thrives within her mother's benign shadow. Looking back on her childhood, she reflects, "It was in such a paradise that I lived." When she turns twelve, however, Annie's life changes, in ways that are often mysterious to her. She begins to question the cultural assumptions of her island world; at school she instinctively rebels against authority; and most frighteningly, her mother, seeing Annie as a "young lady," ceases to be the source of unconditional adoration and takes on the new and unfamiliar guise of adversary. At the end of her school years, Annie decides to leave Antigua and her family, but not without a measure of sorrow, especially for the mother she once knew and never ceases to mourn. "For I could not be sure," she reflects, "whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world."

Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Place magnifies our vision of one small place with Swiftian wit and precision. Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay candidly appraises the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up, and makes palpable the impact of European colonization and tourism. The book is a missive to the traveler, whether American or European, who wants to escape the banality and corruption of some large place. Kincaid, eloquent and resolute, reminds us that the Antiguan people, formerly British subjects, are unable to escape the same drawbacks of their own tiny realm—that behind the benevolent Caribbean scenery are human lives, always complex and often fraught with injustice.

Echappée à sa famille, à son île et à son passé, Lucy, une jeune Antillaise de dix-neuf ans, devient fille au pair dans un foyer bourgeois de New York. Avec une froideur quasi clinique, elle observe et dissèque son nouvel entourage tout en se confrontant à ses propres fantômes : un père qui ne l'a pas aimée et une mère pour laquelle elle éprouve autant de haine que d'amour. Et si elle s'accoutume peu à peu à ce climat jusqu'alors inconnu, son sentiment d'extranéité demeure. Absente au monde, tout entière obsédée par son trouble intérieur, hantée par ses origines, son sexe et sa couleur, elle ne voit d'issue qu'en l'écriture : une tentative de se parler à soi-même, comme l'aveu d'une profonde solitude. Comme dans Mon frère ou dans Autobiographie de ma mère, la singulière voix de Jamaica Kincaid continue de témoigner d'un sentiment de différence inguérissable.

Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the haunting, deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, grows up in a harsh, loveless world after her mother dies in childbirth. Xuela’s narrative provides a rich, vivid exploration of the Caribbean and the pervasive influence of colonialism. The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of a character, an account of one woman's inexorable evolution evoked in startling and magical poetry.

"Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry;..." Girl, a short story by Jamaica Kincaid, was originally published in the June 26, 1978 issue of The New Yorker and subsequently included in the short story collection At the Bottom of the River in 1983.The story deals with the teachings and duties that a dominant mother tries to instill in her daughter, focusing on the significance of familial relationships in shaping one's individual behavior. Jamaica Kincaid (1949-) is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in St. John's, Antigua (part of the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda). Among her most celebrated works are A Small Place (1988), Lucy (1990), and Annie John (1985).

Jamaica Kincaid's inspired, lyrical short storiesReading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partially remembered partly divined. The memories often concern a childhood in the Caribbean--family, manners, and landscape--as distilled and transformed by Kincaid's special style and vision.Kincaid leads her readers to consider, as if for the first time, the powerful ties between mother and child; the beauty and destructiveness of nature; the gulf between the masculine and the feminine; the significance of familiar things--a house, a cup, a pen. Transfiguring our human form and our surroundings--shedding skin, darkening an afternoon, painting a perfect place--these stories tell us something we didn't know, in a way we hadn't expected.

Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. My Brother is an unblinking record of a life that ended too early, and it speaks volumes about the difficult truths at the heart of all families.My Brother is a 1997 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

A beautifully wrought new novel about marriage and family from the acclaimed author of Mr. Potter In See Now Then, the brilliant and evocative new novel from Jamaica Kincaid—her first in ten years—a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. This piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her characters, a mother and father and their two children living in a small village in New England, as they move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future—for, as she writes, “the present will be a now then and the past is now then and the future will be a now then.”Her characters, constrained by the world, despair in their domestic situations. But their minds wander, trying to make linear sense of what is, in fact, nonlinear. See Now Then is Kincaid’s attempt to make clear what is unclear, and to make unclear what we assumed was clear: that is, the beginning, the middle, and the end.Since the publication of her first short-story collection, At the Bottom of the River, nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction, Kincaid has demonstrated a unique talent for seeing beyond and through the surface of things. In See Now Then, she envelops the reader in a world that is both familiar and startling—creating her most emotionally and thematically daring work yet.

One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves. Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book): she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration -- seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet's at Giverny -- are subjected to intense scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up. My Garden (Book): is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the persons who tend them.

In this luminous, bewitching new novel Jamaica Kincaid tells the story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home. The island of Antigua comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffer who makes his living driving a navy blue Hillman along the wide-open roads that pass the only towns he has ever seen and the graveyard where he will be buried. The sun shines squarely overhead, the ocean lies on every side and suppressed passion fills the air. Kincaid conjures up a moving picture of Mr Potter's youth - beginning with memories of his father, a poor fisherman, and his mother, who committed suicide - and the outside world, that presses in on his life. Within these confines, Mr Potter struggles to live at ease: to buy his own car, to have girlfriends, to shake off the encumbrance of his many daughters, one of whom will return to Antigua after he dies, to tell his story with equal measures of distance and sympathy. In Mr Potter Jamaica Kincaid brings alive a figure unlike any in contemporary fiction, an individual consciousness emerging gloriously out of an unexamined life to cast a long shadow.

In this delightful hybrid of a book—part memoir and part travel journal—the bestselling author takes us deep into the mountains of Nepal with a trio of botanist friends in search of native Himalayan plants that will grow in her Vermont garden. Alighting from a plane in the dramatic Annapurna Valley, the ominous signs of Nepal's Maoist guerrillas are all around—an alarming presence that accompanies the travelers throughout their trek. Undaunted, the group sets off into the mountains with Sherpas and bearers, entering an exotic world of spectacular landscapes, vertiginous slopes, isolated villages, herds of yaks, and giant rhododendron, thirty feet tall. The landscape and flora and so much else of what Kincaid finds in the Himalaya—including fruit bats, colorful Buddhist prayer flags, and the hated leeches that plague much of the trip—are new to her, and she approaches it all with an acute sense of wonder and a deft eye for detail. In beautiful, introspective prose, Kincaid intertwines the harrowing Maoist encounters with exciting botanical discoveries, fascinating daily details, and lyrical musings on gardens, nature, home, and family.

From " The Talk of the Town, " Jamaica Kincaid's first impressions of snobbish, mobbish New YorkTalk Pieces is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for the New Yorker 's "Talk of the Town," composed during the time when she first came to the United States from Antigua, from 1978 to 1983. Kincaid found a unique voice, at once in sync with William Shawn's tone for the quintessential elite insider's magazine, and (though unsigned) all her own--wonderingly alive to the ironies and screwball details that characterized her adopted city. New York is a town that, in return, fast adopts those who embrace it, and in these early pieces Kincaid discovers many of its hilarious secrets and urban mannerisms. She meets Miss Jamaica, visiting from Kingston, and escorts the reader to the West Indian-American Day parade in Brooklyn; she sees Ed Koch don his "Cheshire-cat smile" and watches Tammy Wynette autograph a copy of Lattimore's Odyssey ; she learns the worlds of publishing and partying, of fashion and popular music, and how to call a cauliflower a crudite.The book also records Kincaid's development as a young writer--the newcomer who sensitively records her impressions here takes root to become one of our most respected authors.

A unique collaboration from two of America's leading artists that explores the fascination and hidden history of the plant world.In this hard-hitting, witty, deeply original book, the renowned novelist Jamaica Kincaid offers an ABC of the plants that define our world and reveals the often brutal history of colonialism behind them.Kara Walker, one of America's greatest visual artists, illustrates each entry with provocative, brilliant, enthralling, multilayered watercolors.There has never been a book like An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children ―inventive, surprising, and telling―about what our gardens reveal about the truth of history.

När hon gick där med mig i famnen (utan att klaga) och solens hetta ännu var så överväldigande att det tycktes vara den och inte tyngdlagen som höll oss fastnaglade vid jordens yta, tryckte jag läpparna mot sidan av hennes huvud (tinningen) och kände blodets pulsslag genom hennes kropp; jag tryckte läpparna mot hennes hals och hörde henne svälja saliven som samlades i munnen; jag tryckte ansiktet mot hennes hals och drog djupt in en lukt som jag inte kunde identifiera då (hur skulle jag kunna det, det fanns ingenting att jämföra den med) och inte kan nu, för den är inte från djur eller plats eller föremål, det var (och är) en lukt unik för henne, och den lämnade ett så djupt avtryck att den till sist blev del av mina andra sinnen, och ännu (ja, nu) är denna lukt även smak, beröring, syn och hörsel. Jamaica Kincaid, en amerikansk författare med rötter i Antigua, har kommit att bli väldigt uppskattad i Sverige av såväl läsare som kritiker, och hon förekommer ofta i spekulationerna kring Nobelpriset i litteratur. Som i så många av Kincaids romaner kretsar även denna historia kring relationen mellan mor och dotter. På pulserande prosa ger hon en vuxen kvinnas betraktelse av sin mamma (och sig själv som tvååring). Genom historien om en gul klännings tillblivelse tecknar hon bilden av en avgudad mor, som är på samma gång självuppoffrande och svår att nå. Novellen publicerades ursprungligen 1992 men kommer nu för första gången på svenska, i översättning av Gun-Britt Sundström.

A delightful compendium of writing on plants.The passion for gardening and the passion for words come together in this inspired anthology, a collection of essays on topics as diverse as beans and roses, by writers who garden and by gardeners who write. Among the contributors are Christopher Lloyd, on poppies; Marina Warner, who remembers the Guinée rose; and Henri Cole, who offers poems on the bearded iris and on peonies. There is also an explanation of the sexiness of castor beans from Michael Pollan and an essay from Maxine Kumin on how, as Henry David Thoreau put it, one "[makes] the earth say beans instead of grass." Most of the essays are new in print, but Colette, Katharine S. White, D. H. Lawrence, and several other old favorites make appearances. Jamaica Kincaid, the much-admired writer and a passionate gardener herself, rounds up this diverse crew. A wonderful gift for green thumbs, My Favorite Plant is a happy collection of fresh takes on old friends. Wayne Winterrowd / Meconopsis Marina Warner / The Rayburn and the Rose Michael Pollan / Consider the Castor Bean Ken Druse / Desire under the Jacks Duane Michals / The Vanishing Act Colette / Lily Christopher Lloyd / Poppies Karel Capek / Buds Colette / Hellebore Daniel Hinkley / Hellebores Katharine S. White / Irises Henri Cole / Bearded Irises, Peonies Michael Fox / My Grandmother and Her Peonies Thomas C. Cooper / Hardy Geraniums D. H. Lawrence / Sicilian Cyclamens Nancy Goodwin / Cyclamen Mary Keen / Auriculas Maxine Kumin / Beans F. Kingdon Ward / A Day on the Edge of the World Tony Avent / Hostas Hilton Als / Marigolds Dan Chiasson / Ovid at Tomi David Raffeld / Thirteen Roses Graham Stuart Thomas / Old Clove Carnations Steven A. Frowine / Tropical Lady's Slipper Orchids Ernest Wilson / Honeypots and Silver Tree Philip Levine / Wisteria Thomas Fischer / Delphiniums Geoffrey B. Charlesworth / A Favorite Plant Frederick Seidel / Prayer Katharine S. White / Gourds Ian Frazier / Memories of a Press-Gang Gardener William Carlos Williams / Queen-Ann's-Lace D. H. Lawrence / Purple Anemones Elaine Scarry / Columbine

A beautifully illustrated story of three girls caught up in the most curious of mysteries.Three girls—Pam, Beth, and Sue—attend a party to celebrate the publication of the first of the Nancy Drew mystery books. There are many distractions at the fancy affair: flower arrangements, partygoers, refreshments, and lots and lots of marble. Suddenly, the oldest girl, Pam, sees what can only be described as something truly . . . bilious . . . not good! Beth sees it too. The youngest, Sue, does not, and as usual she has a hard time getting anyone to tell her anything. Party: A Mystery is a beautifully drawn adventure story that promises questions that will grab children, but does not guarantee an answer.

A collection of the inimitable writer's essays, from her early days at The Village Voice through her time at The New Yorker. This collection of Jamaica Kincaid's nonfiction writings, from her early days at The New Yorker until now, amounts to a brilliant, hilarious, trenchant self-portrait of one of the most surprising and original writers we have. From the classic "Autobiography of a Dress" to her original thinking about the meaning of the garden, Kincaid writes about the world as she finds it, with her own quizzical, rapier-sharp response to reality that always takes the reader in new, life-enhancing directions. Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson in Antigua in 1949. She has always been herself. Putting Myself Together shows how this inimitable self-created mind and spirit, endowed with inimitable wit, humor, and fearlessness, has become one of our essential writers.

OUR COLORFUL BOX HOLDER FOR THIS VOLUME IS IN GOOD CONDITION. BOOK COVERS AND SPINE IN VERY NICE CONDITION. NO MARKING OR WRITING NOTED IN BOOK.

Puñado is a Latin American literature magazine written solely by women. The magazine publishes short stories translated into Brazilian Portuguese, interviews with the authors and their biographies.Puñado é uma revista de literatura latino-americana escrita por mulheres. A revista publica contos traduzidos para o português brasileiro, entrevistas com as autoras e suas biografias.Puñado 2 authors: Jamaica Kincaid (Antígua/EUA), Natalia Timerman (Brasil), Claudia Ulloa Donoso (Peru), Mónica Ojeda (Equador), Julianne Pachico (Colômbia/EUA), Eunice Shade (Nicarágua/México). Interviews by: Carla Piazzi, Lizandra Magon, Camila Gutierrez, Ana Rüsche, Laura Del Rey.http://incompleta.com.br/revista-punado--