02873nam 2200601Ia 450 991045184470332120200520144314.00-7914-8292-81-4237-4774-7(CKB)1000000000459161(OCoLC)76786815(CaPaEBR)ebrary10579205(SSID)ssj0000184877(PQKBManifestationID)11165975(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000184877(PQKBWorkID)10205464(PQKB)10645456(MiAaPQ)EBC3407782(MdBmJHUP)muse6313(Au-PeEL)EBL3407782(CaPaEBR)ebr10579205(OCoLC)63168202(EXLCZ)99100000000045916120041117d2005 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrJamaica Kincaid[electronic resource] writing memory, writing back to the mother /J. Brooks BousonAlbany State University of New York Pressc20051 online resource (254 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-6523-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-231) and index.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.Memory in literatureMothers and daughters in literatureWomen and literatureAntigua and BarbudaAntiguaHistory20th centuryAntiguaIn literatureElectronic books.Memory in literature.Mothers and daughters in literature.Women and literatureHistory813/.54Bouson J. Brooks690513MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451844703321Jamaica Kincaid1240897UNINA