02839nam 2200589Ia 450 991077754780332120230617042258.00-7914-8292-81-4237-4774-7(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 literatureMemory in literature.Mothers and daughters in literature.Women and literatureHistory813/.54Bouson J. Brooks690513MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777547803321Jamaica Kincaid1240897UNINA