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Bookmark or Share- Jamaica Kincaid - WikipediaJamaica Kincaid ( / kɪnˈkeɪd /; born May 25, 1949) [1] is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. She was born in St. John's, Antigua (part of the twin-island nation of Antigua and Barbuda ). She lives in North Bennington, Vermont and is Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence at ...
- Jamaica Kincaid | Jewish Women's ArchiveJamaica Kincaid. b. May 25, 1949. by Marla Brettschneider. Last updated June 23, 2021. Author Jamaica Kincaid, 2019. Photograph by Sofie Sigrinn. In Brief. Jamaica Kincaid is a Jewish Afro-Caribbean author, born in Antigua while it was still under British colonial rule. Her given name was Elaine Cynthia Potter Richardson.
- Her Story | BBC World ServiceJamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson in St John's, Antigua in May 1949. In Antigua she received a British education and was frequently at the top of the class. In early childhood,...
- 'An unapologetic pulse of defiance': a guide to the works of the ...by Jamaica Kincaid. Often understood as a follow-up or ‘decoder’ to At the Bottom of the River, Annie John (1985) is ostensibly Kincaid’s debut novel, which centres around a debated queer romantic arc. The book expands on the amorphous ideas which are more impressionistically laid out in her previous publication.
- Jamaica Kincaid - Literature - British CouncilHer novel See Now Then (2013) won the Before Columbus Foundation America Book Award in 2014. Jamaica Kincaid teaches in the English, African and African-American Studies Department at Harvard University and lives in Vermont. Read more.
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