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''The Autobiography of My Mother'' is pure and overwhelming, a brilliant fable of willed nihilism. One value of the book is that it shows us what megalomania ...
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Powerful, disturbing, stirring, Jamaica Kincaid's novel is the deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, the ...
The Autobiography of my Mother
Book by Jamaica Kincaid
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12 quotes from The Autobiography of My Mother: 'No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for whi...
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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 ...
Kincaid's first novel, Annie John (1985), examines a childhood that begins as an idyllic relationship between mother and daughter, a connection that decays ...
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Great novel! This is the story of a young girl and her journey through life in neocolonial Dominica and the remnants or a racial hierarchy and the patriarchal ...
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Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of character, an account of one woman's inexorable evolution, ...
At 14, Xuela undertakes an affair with one of her father's friends, becomes pregnant and aborts the child. Experiencing that trauma as a rebirth (``I was a new ...