Jamaica Kincaid Book

Editor's Note     vii
Introduction   Harold Bloom     1
A Small Place: Glossing Annie John's Rebellion   Moira Ferguson     3
Caribbean Writers and Caribbean Language: A Study of Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John   Merle Hodge     23
Authorizing the Slut in Jamaica Kincaid's At the Bottom of the River   Antonia MacDonald-Smythe     31
Jamaica Kincaid's Writing and the Maternal-Colonial Matrix   Laura Niesen de Abruna     53
Under English, Obeah English: Jamaica Kincaid's New Language   K. B. Conal Byrne     63
The Daffodil Gap: Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy   Irline Francois     79
Death and the Diaspora Writer: Hybridity and Mourning in the Work of Jamaica Kincaid   Ramon E. Soto-Crespo     97
Imaginary Homelands in Jamaica Kincaid's Narratives of Development   Maria Helena Lima     127
In the Beginning There Was Death: Spiritual Desolation and the Search for Self in Jamaica Kincaid's Autobiography of My Mother   Elizabeth J. West     141
"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   J. Brooks Bouson     159
Escaping the Colonizer's Whip: The Binary Discipline   Colena Gardner-Corbett     175
"What If He Did Not Have a Sister [Who Lived in the United States]?": Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother as Remittance Text   Kezia Page     189
Chronology     207
Contributors     209
Bibliography     211
Acknowledgments     217
Index     219