Word: kincaidã
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Dates: during 2002-2002
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Jamaica Kincaid arrived in America when she was only 17, leaving behind her native country of Antigua, her family and her christened name, Elaine Potter Richardson. Kincaid??s heritage and poetic style, coupled with the heavily autobiographical content of her work, have established her greatness in contemporary writing. She preserves the outsider’s perspective on her homeland of Antigua and the equally foreign landscape of America, at times juxtaposing both to catch a glimpse of a universal human nature...
...island in the Caribbean.” Mr. Potter, nearing his death, rediscovers the “smooth everydayness” of life, of the traveling and travailing he has endured in the driver’s seat of his car. Here the prose is free-flowing, movingly lyrical; Kincaid??s rich voice, tinted with her Antiguan accent, carried the audience along with the words. But the story shifts from a third-person narrative of Mr. Potter to the “I” of one of his daughters, who shares with her family members only...
Such is the search that informs much of Kincaid??s writing—to find a commonality shared between two apparent strangers or worlds. And in revisiting her family, her homeland and even the name she discarded in search of another perspective, Kincaid comes to understand her own place within the world she left...