What I Have Been Doing Lately | The Meaning of What I Have Been Doing Lately
In the
following essay, the author attempts to decipher the mean-
ing of Kincaid’s ‘‘What I Have Been Doing Lately’’ by examining it ‘‘through the lens of alchemy.’’
After one quick read through of ‘‘What I Have Been Doing Lately,’’ the average intelligent reader may be perplexed at best. What on earth could Kincaid mean by all of this? Such a response would not be rare, indeed some of those who have praised Kincaid’s work have also noted that at times her stories tend to ‘‘move forward to a logic which is essentially private’’ (David Leavitt in the Village Voice). In her article ‘‘At the Bottom of the River: Journey of Mourning,’’ Diane Simmons notes Edith Milton’s perception that Kincaid’s stories are at...
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