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Autore |
Bouson J. Brooks |
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Titolo |
Jamaica Kincaid [[electronic resource] ] : writing memory, writing back to the mother / / J. Brooks Bouson |
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Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2005 |
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ISBN |
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0-7914-8292-8 |
1-4237-4774-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (254 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Memory in literature |
Mothers and daughters in literature |
Women and literature - Antigua and Barbuda - Antigua - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
Antigua In literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-231) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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When you think of me, think of my life -- I had embarked on something called self-invention : artistic beginnings in "Antigua crossings" and At the bottom of the river -- The way I became a writer was that my mother wrote my life for me and told it to me : living in the shadow of the mother in Annie John -- As I looked at this sentence a great wave of shame came over me and I wept and wept : the art of memory, anger, and despair in Lucy -- Imagine the bitterness and the shame in me as I tell you this : the political is personal in A small place and "On seeing England for the first time" -- I would bear children but I would never be a mother to them : writing back to the contemptuous mother in The autobiography of my mother -- I shall never forget him because his life is the one I did not have : remembering her brother's failed life in My brother -- Like him and his own father before him, I have a line drawn through me : imagining the life of the absent father in Mr. Potter. |
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