A Study Guide for Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John

A Study Guide for Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John
Author: Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2015-03-13
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1410335410

A Study Guide for Jamaica Kincaid's "Annie John," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

Annie John

Annie John
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Perfection Learning
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1997-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780812473391

Annie John grows from a precocious, fearless, ten-year-old living in a Caribbean paradise into a young woman who realizes she must leave Antigua to escape her mother's shadow.

Lucy

Lucy
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2002-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466828854

The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--available now in an e-book edition. Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to America to work as an au pair for a wealthy couple. She begins to notice cracks in their beautiful façade at the same time that the mysteries of own sexuality begin to unravel. Jamaica Kincaid has created a startling new heroine who is destined to win a place of honor in contemporary fiction.

A Small Place

A Small Place
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2000-04-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 1466828838

A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John "If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ." So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up. Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies.

Understanding Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John [eBook - ABC-Clio Via NC Live]

Understanding Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John [eBook - ABC-Clio Via NC Live]
Author: Deborah E. Mistron
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Antigua
ISBN: 9781573566452

A collection of thirty primary documents and commentary that provide insight into the historical, social, and cultural contexts of Jamaica Kincaid's 1985 novel "Annie John," with study questions, topics for research papers, and lists of further reading.

My Brother

My Brother
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1998-11-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1466828862

Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. My Brother is an unblinking record of a life that ended too early, and it speaks volumes about the difficult truths at the heart of all families. My Brother is a 1997 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.

See Now Then

See Now Then
Author: Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2013-02-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466827688

In See Now Then, the brilliant and evocative new novel from Jamaica Kincaid—her first in ten years—a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. This piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her characters—a mother, a father, and their two children, living in a small village in New England—as they move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future: for, as she writes, "the present will be now then and the past is now then and the future will be a now then." Her characters, constrained by the world, despair in their domestic situations. But their minds wander, trying to make linear sense of what is, in fact, nonlinear. See Now Then is Kincaid's attempt to make clear what is unclear, and to make unclear what we assumed was clear: that is, the beginning, the middle, and the end. Since the publication of her first short-story collection, At the Bottom of the River, which was nominated for a PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, Kincaid has demonstrated a unique talent for seeing beyond and through the surface of things. In See Now Then, she envelops the reader in a world that is both familiar and startling—creating her most emotionally and thematically daring work yet.

A Study Guide for Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John

A Study Guide for Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John
Author: Cengage Learning Gale
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2017-07-25
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 9781375397834

A Study Guide for Jamaica Kincaid's "Annie John," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.