Jamaica Kincaid
Born in Antigua in 1949, Jamaica Kincaid moved to the United States to attend college. Her works are semi-autobiographical, and deal most frequently with two particular themes. The first theme deals with Antigua and island life in the Caribbean. Kincaid captures the essence of the island through realistic images and vivid descriptions. While all of her works treat this theme, her first nonfiction work, A Small Place, deals exclusively with Antigua and the lives and lifestyles of its inhabitants. The second theme Kincaid explores extensively is that of women and their relationships with each other, particularly the mother-daughter relationship. Kincaid writes of mothers and daughters in Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, and "Girl". The short piece, "Girl", is one of Kincaid's best representatives of the theme of a young woman's relationship with an older female relative, and of gender roles."Girl" was first published in 1983 in At the Bottom of the River, a collection of stories which won the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Ac
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Approximate Word count = 714
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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