Jamaica Kincaid : a critical companion / by Paravisini-Gebert, Lizabeth, PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Life of Jamaica Kincaid --…”
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In search of Annie Drew : Jamaica Kincaid's mother and muse / by Dance, Daryl Cumber, PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: filling in the gaps -- Dominica: the stories begin here -- Free and single in Antigua -- Raising an only child -- Unwanted brothers' arrival/rebel sister's exile -- In America, finally -- The silent years and the reconnection -- Annie Drew and her boys -- A brother's death/a sister's fears and fury -- Annie Drew's last years -- Jamaica's God is stilled -- Epilogue: "I married my mother."…”
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Heritage call : ballad for children of the dragon / by Lee, Easton, PALCI EBSCO books

Subjects: “…Chinese poetry Jamaica.…”
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The duppy / by Winkler, Anthony C., PALCI EBSCO books

“…Jamaica Fiction.…”
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Miss Lou : Louise Bennett and Jamaican culture / by Morris, Mervyn, PALCI EBSCO books

“…Jamaica Social life and customs.…”
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Thieving Three-Fingered Jack : transatlantic tales of a Jamaican outlaw, 1780-2015 / by Botkin, Frances R.

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Empire of neglect : the West Indies in the wake of British liberalism / by Taylor, Christopher, 1985-, Duke University Press ebooks

Table of Contents: “…The political economy of neglect -- "Them worthless ones" : emancipatory liberalism in Jamaica -- Imperial abandonment and hemispheric alternatives -- Uncle Bolívar's children -- "A purely 'mercial transaction."…”
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The fiction of Robert Antoni : writing in the estuary / by Patteson, Richard F. (Richard Francis), 1947-, PALCI EBSCO books

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Out of order! : Anthony Winkler and white West Indian writing / by Robinson-Walcott, Kim, PALCI EBSCO books

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Postcolonial Travel Writing : Critical Explorations. by Edwards, Justin D., ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions

Table of Contents: “…7 Where the Other Half Lives: Touring the Sites of Caribbean Spirit Possession in Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place8 Floral Diaspora in Jamaica Kincaid's Travel Writing; 9 Post-Orientalism and the Past-Colonial in William Dalrymple's Travel Histories; 10 An Interview with William Dalrymple and Pankaj Mishra; Index.…”
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Backtalk : women writers speak out : interviews / by PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Paula Gunn Allen -- Gloria Anzaldúa -- Pat Barker -- Mary Beckett -- Rosario Ferré -- Vivian Gornick -- Jamaica Kincaid -- Barbara Kingsolver -- Maxine Hong Kingston -- Valerie Miner -- Gloria Naylor -- Éilís Ní Dhuibhne -- Joan Riley -- Joanna Russ -- Leslie Marmon Silko.…”
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Far from Mecca : globalizing the Muslim Caribbean / by Khan, Aliyah, 1981-, PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Black Literary Islam: Enslaved Learned Men in Jamaica, and the Hidden Sufi Aesthetic -- 2. Silence and Suicide: Indo-Caribbean Fullawomen in Post-Plantation Modernity -- 3. …”
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Foreign Goods : a Selection of Writing by British East Asian Artists. by Young, Jingan, ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions

Table of Contents: “…; Suzy Wong: Fitting In and Fucking Up; Jamaica Boy; The Stone; Under a Blood Red Moon; The Confession; The Swing; I'm Just Here to Buy Soy Sauce.…”
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Exploring the Palace of the Peacock : essays on Wilson Harris / by Adler, Joyce Sparer, 1915-1999, PALCI EBSCO books

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The devil in the details : Cuban antislavery narrative in the postmodern age / by Williams, Claudette, PALCI EBSCO books

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Borrowed tongues : life writing, migration, and translation / by Karpinski, Eva C., PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Introduction Migrations of Theories: Autobiography and Translation -- Literacy Narratives: Mary Antin and Laura Goodman Salverson -- Immigrant Crypto(auto)graphy: Akemi Kikumura and Apolonja Maria Kojder -- Experimental Self-Translations: Eva Hoffman and Smaro Kamboureli -- Translation as Allegorical Metafiction: Marlene Nourbese Philip and Jamaica Kincaid -- Conclusion.…”
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Crossing the line : early Creole novels and anglophone Caribbean culture in the age of emancipation / by Ward, Candace

Table of Contents: “…-- Hortus creolensis: cultivating the creole novel -- "A permanent revolution": time, history, and constructions of Africa in Cynric Williams's Hamel, the obeah man -- "Lost subjects": the specter of idleness and the work of Marly; or, a planter's life in Jamaica -- Recentering the Caribbean: revolution and the creole cosmopolis in Warner Arundell -- Conclusion: the unfinished business of early creole (historical) novels.…”
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Vulnerable states : bodies of memory in contemporary Caribbean fiction / by De Ferrari, Guillermina, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Lurking shadows : ethnography, colonialism, and crime in Patrick Chamoisea''s Solibo magnifique -- Illness and utopia in Severo Sarduy's Pájaros de la playa -- Coming of age in the tropics : girlhood and the making of the colonial body -- Erotic interventions : the political and the intimate in Jamaica Kincaid's The autobiography of my mother -- Abjection and aesthetic violence in Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's Trilogía sucia de La Habana.…”
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Close Kin and Distant Relatives : the Paradox of Respectability in Black Women's Literature. by Morris, Susana M., 1980-

Table of Contents: “…: ambivalence, agency, and the family romance in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John -- Daughters of this land: genealogies of resistance in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, eyes, memory -- The language of family: talking back to narratives of Black pathology in Sapphire's Push -- Epilogue.…”
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Island paradise : the myth : an examination of contemporary Caribbean and Sri Lankan writing / by Murray, Melanie A., PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Preliminary Material -- Islands and the Paradise Myth -- Gardening and Conquest: Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place, My Garden (book):, and Among Flowers -- Islands and Self-Discovery: Romesh Gunesekera's Reef and Heaven's Edge -- The Garden as England's 'Islanded Self': Jean Arasanayagam's Colonizer/Colonized, "I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes," "The Witness," and "The Garden Party" -- Empire and the House: Lawrence Scott's Witchbroom, Romesh Gunesekera's The Sandglass, and Jean Arasanayagam's "Time the Destroyer" -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.…”
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