Jamaica Kincaid
Autore di Annie John
Sull'Autore
Jamaica Kincaid came to the United States in 1966 as a free-lance writer and is now on staff at the New Yorker. Her first volume of stories, At the Bottom of the River (1983), depicts men and women alienated from each other by conflict, physical separation, or death. The story "My Mother" vividly mostra altro describes the painful separation between mother and daughter; and the stories in Annie John (1985) clearly reveal that the world of the past cannot be recaptured. Kincaid's poetic use of language and everyday images allows the reader to experience ordinary events with a new and heightened sensitivity. Kincaid is a relatively new writer whose works are beginning to receive critical attention. (Bowker Author Biography) Jamaica Kincaid, novelist, memoirist, & essayist, was born in St. John's, Antigua. Her books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, and My Brother, all published by FSG. She lives with her family in Vermont. (Publisher Provided) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Embassy of the U.S./Israel (Distinguished American Speaker Series)
Opere di Jamaica Kincaid
My Mother 4 copie
Wingless 2 copie
Seattle Now & Then 1 copia
My Favorite Plant 1 copia
World Writers Today 1 copia
The Poor Visitor 1 copia
My Favorite Flowers 1 copia
Mother 1 copia
Figures in the Distance 1 copia
Nessun titolo 1 copia
Kincaid, Jamaica Archive 1 copia
Opere correlate
The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction: Fifty North American American Stories Since 1970 (1999) — Collaboratore — 511 copie
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Collaboratore — 380 copie
Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present (2007) — Collaboratore — 184 copie
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Collaboratore — 159 copie
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Collaboratore — 121 copie
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995) — Collaboratore — 115 copie
Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (1992) — Collaboratore — 100 copie
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Collaboratore — 93 copie
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Collaboratore — 83 copie
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Collaboratore — 75 copie
More Stories We Tell: The Best Contemporary Short Stories by North American Women (2004) — Collaboratore — 64 copie
How I Learned to Cook and Other Writings on Complex Mother-Daughter Relationships (2004) — Collaboratore — 58 copie
In the Land of the Blue Poppies: The Collected Plant-Hunting Writings of Frank Kingdon Ward (2003) — Prefazione — 51 copie
Jo's Girls: Tomboy Tales of High Adventure, True Grit, and Real Life (1997) — Collaboratore — 47 copie
Her True-True Name : an anthology of women's writing from the Caribbean (1989) — Collaboratore — 43 copie
Mending the World: Stories of Family by Contemporary Black Writers (2003) — Collaboratore — 33 copie
Centers of the Self: Stories by Black American Women, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (1994) — Collaboratore — 28 copie
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women (2023) — Collaboratore — 18 copie
The Bluelight Corner: Black Women Writing on Passion, Sex, and Romantic Love (1998) — Collaboratore — 9 copie
Amerika, Amerika bloemlezing — Collaboratore — 8 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Kincaid, Jamaica
- Nome legale
- Potter Richardson, Elaine Cynthia
- Data di nascita
- 1949-05-25
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Antigua i Barbuda
- Nazione (per mappa)
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Luogo di nascita
- St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda
- Luogo di residenza
- St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda (birth)
New York, New York, USA
New Hampshire, USA
North Bennington, Vermont, USA - Istruzione
- New School for Social Research (Photography)
Franconia College (New Hampshire) - Attività lavorative
- fact checker (Forbes magazine)
staff writer (The New Yorker)
creative writing teacher (Harvard University)
novelist
gardener
gardening writer (mostra tutto 7)
professor - Relazioni
- Shawn, Allen (husband | divorced)
- Organizzazioni
- The New Yorker
Harvard University - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Lannan Literary Award (Fiction, 1999)
Paris Review Hadada Prize (2022)
Morton Dauwen Zabel Award (1984)
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (1997)
Prix Femina étranger (2000)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 2004) (mostra tutto 11)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009)
Clifton Fadiman Medal (2010)
American Book Award (2014)
Dan David Prize (2017)
Royal Society of Literature International Writer (2019) - Agente
- The Wylie Agency (UK) Ltd
- Breve biografia
- Jamaica Kincaid 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). She lives in North Bennington, Vermont and is Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence at Harvard University during the academic year.
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Utenti
Discussioni
YA, S. American girl moves to U.S., Irish friend, sexual discovery in Name that Book (Novembre 2014)
Recensioni
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Che la famiglia, specie mononucleare, sia il grande malato del nostro tempo è fuori di dubbio. In questo strano libro l'elemento disfunzionale, anche se non sembra minimamente rendersene contro, è la moglie e madre nonché voce narrante. La 'cara signora Sweet', nomen omen, pur prigioniera di un difficile e doloroso passato, sparge melassa ovunque e attizza l'odio di chi le sta vicino (marito e figli). Vive come trasognata tra i suoi fiori, le sue ricette francesi, i suoi lavori a maglia e la sua stanza di scrittrice (autobiografia?) mescolando e sovrapponendo passato e presente, adesso e allora, totalmente impermeabile al principio di realtà. Un personaggio irritante, non solo per il povero signor Sweet, che alla fine taglia la corda con un'altra, non senza averle detto con pochi giri di parole che cosa pensa di lei (chi può dargli torto?), ma anche per il lettore e pure per la lettrice che di suo sarebbe, quasi pregiudizialmente, dalla parte delle donne. Ma della 'cara signora Sweet' e delle sue pose stucchevoli, e al tempo stesso pretenziose, si arriva a non poterne più nonostante la scrittura originale e un certo, non meno originale, retrogusto caraibico.… (altro)
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- Opere
- 44
- Opere correlate
- 63
- Utenti
- 7,187
- Popolarità
- #3,411
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 141
- ISBN
- 268
- Lingue
- 14
- Preferito da
- 23