Jamaica Kincaid: Where the Land Meets the Body, [Paperback]

Moira Ferguson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1994 | ISBN-10: 0813915201 | ISBN-13: 978-0813915203

As a writer who has been quoted as saying she writes to save her life- that is she couldn't write, she would be a revolutionary- Antiguan novelist Jamaica Kincaid translates this passion into searing, exhilarating prose. Her weaving of history, autobiography, fiction, and polemic has won her a large readership. In this first book-length study of her work, Moira Ferguson examines all of Kincaid's writing up to 1992, focusing especially o their entwinement of personal and political identity. In doing so, she draws a parallel between the dynamics of the mother-daughter relationship in Kincaid's fiction and the more political relationship of the colonizer and the colonized. Ferguson calls this effect the "doubled mother"- a conception of motherhood as both colonial and biological.

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About the Author

Moira Ferguson is the James E. Ryan Chair in English and Women's Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her publications include Gender and Colonial Relations from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jamaica Kincaid: East Caribbean Connections; The Hart Sisters: Early African-Caribbean Writers, Evangelicals, and Radicals; and Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834.

Product Details

• Paperback: 206 pages
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press (August 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0813915201
• ISBN-13: 978-0813915203
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,546,783 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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