Erna Brodber and Velma Pollard : folklore and culture in Jamaica / by Bryan, Violet Harrington, JSTOR books

“…Jamaica In literature.…”
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Colonialism and gender relations from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jamaica Kincaid : East Caribbean connections / by Ferguson, Moira

Whiteness and trauma : the mother-daughter knot in the fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, and Toni Morrison / by Burrows, Victoria, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : unravelling the knot -- "The white hush between two sentences" : the traumatic ambivalence of whiteness in Wide Sargasso Sea -- Keeping history safe -- "Caught between ghosts of whiteness" : the other side of the story -- Lucy : Jamaica Kincaid's postcolonial echo -- The search for a voice -- "The sea is history" -- "Knots of death" : Toni Morrison's Sula -- Ambivalent maternal inheritances -- The "gift for metaphor" -- Conclusion : a meditation on silence.…”

Whiteness and trauma the mother-daughter knot in the fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison / by Burrows, Victoria, 1951-, ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions, ProQuest (Firm)

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Literary identification from Charlotte Brontë to Tsitsi Dangarembga / by Green, Laura Morgan

Table of Contents: “…The novel of formation and literary identification -- Coming together : George Eliot, Simone de Beauvoir, and Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Coming apart : Charlotte Brontë, Jamaica Kincaid, and Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Coming out : Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, and Jeanette Winterson.…”

Mother imagery in the novels of Afro-Caribbean women / by Alexander, Simone A. James, 1967-

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Mother imagery in the novels of Afro-Caribbean women by Alexander, Simone A. James, 1967-, ProQuest Ebook Subscriptions, ProQuest (Firm)

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Literary identification from Charlotte Brontë to Tsitsi Dangarembga / by Green, Laura Morgan, JSTOR

Table of Contents: “…The novel of formation and literary identification -- Coming together : George Eliot, Simone de Beauvoir, and Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Coming apart : Charlotte Brontë, Jamaica Kincaid, and Tsitsi Dangarembga -- Coming out : Virginia Woolf, Radclyffe Hall, and Jeanette Winterson.…”
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Trances, dances, and vociferations : agency and resistance in Africana women's narratives / by Elia, Nada

Caribbean women writers /

Table of Contents: “…Phyllis Shand Allfrey -- Erna Brodber -- Michelle Cliff -- Merle Collins -- Edwidge Danticat -- Zee Edgell -- Beryl Gilroy -- Merle Hodge -- Jamaica Kincaid -- Paule Marshall -- Jean Rhys -- Olive Senior.…”

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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Backtalk : women writers speak out : interviews /

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.…”

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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Caribbean women writers : essays from the first international conference / by International Conference on the Women Writers of the English-speaking Caribbean

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The whistling bird : women writers of the Caribbean /

Table of Contents: “…Excerpt from The autobiography of my mother / Jamaica Kincaid -- I do not know my father / Esther Phillips -- Longtime story / Zee Edgell -- Song for mother earth = Kantika pa mama tera ; The promise = Promesa ; Old lady = Habai / Nydia Ecury -- The child's return ; Love for an island ; Miss Garthside's greenhouse / Phyllis Allfrey -- Smile please / Christabel LaRonde -- Caribman ; Blacksister ; C'est juste une guêpe ; Maroussia / Gilda Nassief -- The whistling bird ; Excerpt from Wide Sargasso Sea / Jean Rhys --Madelene / Merle Collins -- Wayang kulit / Maryse Condé -- Excerpt from The bridge of beyond / Simone Schwarz-Bart -- Excerpt from Frangipani house / Beryl Gilroy -- Web of kin ; We the women ; These islands / Grace Nichols -- Night women / Edwidge Danticat -- Candy seller ; Bans O'Ooman! …”

Black and white women's travel narratives : antebellum explorations / by Fish, Cheryl J.

Table of Contents: “…Mobile subjectivity, embodied labor -- Journeys and warnings : Nancy Prince's resistant truth telling in New England, Russia, and Jamaica -- Traveling medicine chest : Mary Seacole "plays doctor" at colonial crossroads in Panama and the Crimea -- Encountering hybridity : Margaret Fuller and America in transition -- Coda. …”

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.…”

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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Caribbean women writers : fiction in English /

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Africanism and authenticity in African-American women's novels / by Levin, Amy K., 1957-, PALCI EBSCO books

Table of Contents: “…Otherness and the black mask -- Metaphor and maternity in Mama Day -- Clearing space : dramas of liminality and initiation in Morrison's novels -- Mother as colony, colony as mother : Jamaica Kincaid and cultural dislocation -- Alice Walker and the ethics of possession -- The violation of voice : revising the slave narrative -- Ghostwriting : authenticity and appropriation in Family and Beloved -- "We wasn't nothing" : leadership and vision in Dessa Rose -- African (re)sisters : rhetoric, representation, and liberation in Alice Walker's works -- A call finds its response : African women and African-American women writers.…”
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