Jamaica Kincaid (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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Jamaica Kincaid first gained respect and admiration as the writer of At the Bottom of the River (1983), a collection of unconventional but thematically unified short stories. She also wrote two important memoirs, A Small Place (1988), about growing up in a Caribbean vacation resort, and My Brother (1997), the story of her brother’s struggle with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Additionally, as a staff writer for The New Yorker for twenty years, she wrote numerous “Talk of the Town” pieces and frequent articles on...
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