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...this Mr. Potter isn't Harry's dad. Mr. Potter, a native Antiguan of African descent, works on the Caribbean island of Antigua as a chauffeur for a Mideastern immigrant. He is the focus of Jamaica Kincaid's new novel, "Mr. Potter," (Farrar, Straus; May). PW is swept away, giving the book a starred review. "Another unsentimental, unsparing meditation on family and the larger forces that shape an individual's world...As in her previous books, Kincaid has exquisite control over her narrator's deep-seated rage, which drives the story but never overpowers it, and is tempered...
This project has helped Breece to realize that some day he would like to be a screenwriter. To that end, he is taking a writing seminar this semester with Jamaica Kincaid, who is visiting lecturer on Afro-American studies and on English and American literature and language, in addition to tutorials in history and literature and Afro-American studies, Spanish 27, a women’s studies class and a Core. “There were a lot of classes I wanted to take this semester, and now that I’m getting into thesis mode there is reading...
...kinds of things we are studying. The fact that everyone outside of Harvard is talking about Cornel West and Larry Summers and whether Skip Gates and Kwame Appiah are going to go with Cornel and not about what Higginbotham or Tommie Shelby is doing or about Jamaica Kincaid is emblematic of a larger misfocus...
Luminaries James Taylor, Mandy Patinkin, Jamaica Kincaid, John Guare, Elizabeth Murray and Trisha Brown described their reactions to the recent attacks in a packed Sanders Theatre. Their theme: the song is the same, but the key has changed...
...Kincaid drew strong reactions from the audience for her remarks that terrorism and violence are not unique in the world. Referring to the ubiquitous slogan “God Bless America,” she countered that America is not the only nation that God should bless...