Jamacia Kincaid
Jamaica Kincaid is a West Indian – born American novelist short story writer, essayist, and journalist. Kincaid began her legacy writing career as a magazine journalist. The Editors of the New Yorker found that Kincaid, an immigrant to the United States, could effectively distance herself from the insights on American culture. They often quoted her in their articles which eventually encouraged Kincaid to write for the magazines “Talk of the Town” column. When Kincaid began to write her fiction novels it proved a perceptive observer of her native Antigua. Jamaica Kincaid’s work is a large portion of autobiographical stories and most of the stories often draw attention upon her childhood experiences on the Caribbean. In her fiction, which she is widely and best known, Kincaid examines the intense bonds between parents and children and the effects of the growth process on both generations. Her writing exposes elements from West Indians language folklore, and voodoo. Kincaid is viewed as a participant in the West Indian literary movement, but white colonialist values are rejected in favor of African or native West Indian modes of expression. Her emphasis on female characters and “emotional truthfulness” works in her feminist
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Approximate Word count = 2040
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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