Understanding Jamaica Kincaid
Understanding Jamaica Kincaid introduces readers to the prizewinning author best known for the novels ""Annie John"", ""Lucy"", and ""The Autobiography of My Mother"". Justin D. Edwards s...
At the Bottom of the River
Jamaica Kincaid's At the Bottom of the River... 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 ...
At The Bottom Of The River
Jamaica Kincaid's inspired, lyrical short stories Reading 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 as...
Min bror
Jamaica Kincaids bror Devon dog i aids trettiotre år gammal. När han insjuknade återupptog Kincaid kontakten med honom efter att de tillbringat trettio år i olika länder, men först efter hans död fick hon veta vem han verkligen var.K...
Min bror
Jamaica Kincaids bror Devon dog i aids trettiotre år gammal. När han insjuknade återupptog Kincaid kontakten med honom efter att de tillbringat trettio år i olika länder, men först efter hans död fick hon veta vem han verkligen var. K...
In Search of Annie Drew
There is perhaps no other person who has been so often and obsessively featured in any writers canon as Jamaica Kincaids mother, Annie Drew. In this provocative new book, Daryl Dance argues that everything Kincaid has written, regardless of its ap...
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Talk Stories
'Fresh, risky, improvisational and hard-to-categorize writing' - Chicago Tribune Talk Stories is a collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for the New Yorker's 'Talk of the Town' column from 1974 to 1983. In these early pieces Kincaid dis...
Annie John
The essential coming-of-age novel by Jamaica Kincaid, Annie John is a haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. Kincaid's novel focuses on a universal, tragic, and often comic theme: the loss of childhood....
Bland blommor
Jamaica Kincaids klassiska reseskildring från en fröinsamlingsresa till Nepal, ursprungligen beställd av National Geographics.Bland blommor är Jamaica Kincaids bok om sitt intresse för att samla fröer från hela världen och kartlägga växtern...
Annie John
The essential, urgent coming-of-age novel by Jamaica Kincaid, a reinventor of the form. Since her first, prizewinning collection of stories, At the Bottom of the River, Jamaica Kincaid's work has been met with nothing short of amazement. The New York Times hailed her 'prophetic power' and the Los Angeles Times Book Review said, 'No one else seems to be writing quite this way.' With Annie John, the story of a young girl coming of age in Antigua, Kincaid tore open the theme that lies at the heart of her fierce, incantatory novels: the ambivalent and essential bonds created by a mother's love. In this book, written in Kincaid's lucid, elemental style, Annie John's ambivalence is universally familiar and wrenchingly real.
Putting Myself Together
A landmark collection of essays by the iconic writer Jamaica Kincaid.'An unaffectedly sumptuous, irresistible writer' - Susan Sontag'What a writer' - Ali Smith'Both a daughter of Bronte and Woolf and her own inimitable self' The Wall Street Journal'If you are new to Kincaid, I envy you' - Jackie KayThat's the way I write. It's never going to stop. And the more it makes people annoyed the more I will do it. Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson in Antigua in 1949. She has always been herself. Her work began to be published after she moved to New York at the age of nineteen, and by 1974 she was contributing to The New Yorker's 'Talk of the Town' column, where she later became a staff writer.This is a blazing collection that spans more than five decades of Jamaica Kincaid's writing. From Muhammad Ali, Diana Ross, gardening and motherhood, to colonialism and the act of writing, Putting Myself Together shows how this witty and fearless writer became one of the most remarkable and influential voices of a generation.
(boken Om) Min Trädgård
Jamaica Kincaids första trädgård bestod av en liten plätt i gräsmattan framför familjens hus i Vermont. Hon hade fått ett par fröpåsar och några trädgårdsredskap i morsdagspresent, av en familj som inte kunde ana att de satt igång ett intresse som snart skulle överskugga allt annat. På platsen där hon föddes, den karibiska ön Antigua, anlade man inte trädgårdar för njutningens skull. Där var växtligheten antingen vild eller förknippad med arbete, en påminnelse om slaveriet. Men så har Kincaid inte heller anlagt sina trädgårdar som andra. För henne är trädgården tätt förknippad med historien och hennes sätt att se på världen: hon intresserar sig för växternas ursprung och ser likheter mellan hur människor och växter flyttats från platser där de hör hemma och fått nya namn. Att namnge är att äga, menar Kincaid, och ger oss ett bland annat ett nytt perspektiv på Carl von Linnés gärning. Jamaica Kincaids trädgårdsbok är till lika delar essä, memoar och en entusiastisk odlares anteckningar. Med ett vindlande vackert språk som känns igen från hennes romaner berättar hon om sina passioner och sina misslyckanden, hon läser frökataloger och biografier över trädgårdsmästare, hon besöker Monets trädgård och Chelsea Flower Show, och hon åker till Kina för att samla fröer och genom hela boken sätter hon själva idén om trädgården i ett större perspektiv. JAMAICA KINCAID (f. 1949) är författare till romaner som Lucy, Min mors självbiografi och Annie John. Hon föddes på Antigua men har bott i USA sedan tonåren och lämnar ogärna trädgården i Vermont i nordöstra USA under somrarna. Under många år var hon skribent på den legendariska tidskriften New Yorker, där också hennes trädgårdsskrivande inleddes. NICLAS NILSSON är en av Sveriges mest ansedda översättare från engelska. Han har tidigare översatt flera av Kincaids romaner, men även författare som George Saunders, Colson Whitehead, Richard Ford, Zadie Smith, Madeline Miller och Anne Sexton.
Colonialism and Gender Relations from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jamaica Kincaid
Against the historical background of slavery and colonialism, this study investigates how white and Afro-Caribbean women writers have responded to feminist, abolitionist and post-emancipationist issues. It aims to reveal a relationship between col...
Authentic Recipes from Jamaica
Cook delicious, authentic Jamaican food with this easy-to-follow Jamaican cookbook. Jamaica is the mountainous Caribbean island famed for its coffee and its beaches. But with its abundance of homegrown ingredients and its many cultural influences,...
Crossing Into America
This outstanding collection captures the diverse voices of the new literature of American immigration. Bringing together beautiful writing from celebrated authors such as Sandra Cisneros, Jamaica Kincaid, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Chang-Rae Lee, C...
Angela Carter's Book Of Wayward Girls And Wicked Women
This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Man...
Guyana Quartet
This epic masterpiece is a radical landmark in modern literature, reissued with a foreword by poet Ishion Hutchinson to mark Wilson Harris' centenary. 'An exhilarating experience ... Genius.' Jamaica Kincaid I dreamt I awoke with one dead seeing e...
Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica
Explore one of the beautiful islands in the Caribbean Sea: Jamaica! This book’s colorful photos bring the country’s tropical environment and vibrant culture to life. With leveled text aimed at those reading to learn, readers will discover the landforms, wildlife, and customs that make Jamaica beautiful. Features will engage the reader with maps, profiles, activities, and fun facts about the sports, food, and music of Jamaica. Readers will get a taste of island life with this colorful title!
Among Flowers
In this travel memoir, the acclaimed novelist Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a three-week trek through Nepal, the spectacular and exotic Himalayan land, where she and her companions are gathering seeds for planting at home. The natural world and, in p...
Among Flowers
In this acclaimed travel memoir Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a spectacular and exotic three-week trek through the Himalayan land of Nepal, where she and her companions are gathering seeds for planting at home. The natural world and, in particular, p...
Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children
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 visu...
Mr. Potter
The story of an ordinary man, his century, and his home: "e;Kincaid's most poetic and affecting novel to date"e; (Robert Antoni, The Washington Post Book World)Jamaica Kincaid's first obssession, the island of Antigua, comes vibran...
My Brother
Jamaica Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also the story of her family on the island of Antigua. "Visceral and wrenching, this is a memoir of mourning . . . Kincaid's r...
Through Jamaican Lenses
Born and raised on the island of Jamaica, Fern June Khan has valued and embraced Jamaica in each stage of her life. Despite the island’s economic and educational challenges during her youth, Khan’s childhood was a colorful one, replete with the vibrant culture of the island, endlessly supportive role models, and a complex social tapestry. Her early experiences empowered Khan to develop an unwavering sense of self as she progressed into adulthood and moved to the United States. Through Jamaican Lenses: A Memoir celebrates Khan’s joyful upbringing, journey to a new environment, and her many educational and professional accomplishments. Centering on her early life in Jamaica in the 1940s and '50s, this memoir reveals Khan’s childhood as one rich with opportunities to observe and experience the complexities of Jamaican life and history. Khan’s childhood memories revel in the community’s vivid folklore, Jamaica's music and food, popular idioms and sayings, as well as the implications of
På flodens botten
»Det är helt otroligt att en människa som är så ung som var när hon skrev den här boken kan skriva tio noveller som är så sammansatta. Hon är klar.« YUKIKO DUKE, SVT »Jamaica Kincaid är en okonstlat storslagen och oemotståndlig författare.« ...
(Boken om) Min trädgård
Ett par fröpåsar i morsdagspresent blev startskottet för Jamaica Kincaids passionerade trädgårdsintresse. På platsen där hon föddes, den karibiska ön Antigua, anlade man inte trädgårdar för njutningens skull. Där var växtligheten antingen vild ell...
Among Flowers
In this travel memoir, the acclaimed novelist Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a three-week trek through Nepal, the spectacular and exotic Himalayan land, where she and her companions are gathering seeds for planting at home. The natural world and, in particular, plants and gardening are central to Kincaid's work; in addition to such novels as Annie John and Lucy, Kincaid is the author of My Garden (Book): a collection of essays about her love of cultivating plants and gardens throughout her life. Among Flowers intertwines meditations on nature and stunning descriptions of the Himalayan landscape with observations on the ironies, difficulties, and dangers of this magnificent journey. For Kincaid and three botanist friends, Nepal is a paradise, a place where a single day's hike can traverse climate zones, from subtropical to alpine, encompassing flora suitable for growing at their homes, from Wales to Vermont. Yet as she makes clear, there is far more to this foreign world than rhododendrons
