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Author: Jamaica KincaidFormat: --
Publisher: Farrar Straus & GirouxEdition: 1
ISBN-10: 0374107319Edition Description: Illustrated
ISBN-13: 9780374107314Educational Level: --
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Xuela, a childless Dominican woman in her 70s whose own mother died while giving birth to her, tells the story of a life filled with tragedy and small triumphs: Sent at birth to live in the home of her father's washerwoman, she moves back to her father's house after seven years and must fend off the murderous rage of her jealous stepmother. The neglect and cruelty she suffers as a child sets the pattern for her life, as Xuela treats herself and others with calculated and often cruel disregard.

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Length:228 pages
Height:8.5 in.
Width:5.5 in.
Thickness:1.0 in.
Weight:12.8 oz.

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Jamaica Kincaid's new novel is the haunting, deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. Xuela Claudette Richardson, daughter of a Carib mother and a half-Scottish, half-African father, was delivered to his laundress as an infant, bundled up like his clothes. The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of a character, an account of one woman's inexorable evolution evoked in startling and magical poetry.

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"This book is about Xuela--her voice and her pain. But it is also about that crucial division between the past and history, and about the rending obligation--which no writer of colony can be quite free of--to claim the first by subverting the second. Jamaica Kincaid is attempting to do just this through the voice of Xuela, and in that sense, Xuela's voice becomes the witness to that division."
Voice Literary Supplement - Eavan Boland (02/19/1996)

"The desolate self-sufficiency of Xuela's life is sometimes shocking. It is never oppressive. Kincaid has given her a gleaming argument. Here, taken to an extreme, is a woman's retort to sexual, racial, and historical oppression on a West Indian island, and perhaps elsewhere. It is not that the argument necessarily convinces. Kincaid does not say that Xuela is right. She says that you will not forget her. And she is right."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Richard Eder (02/14/1996)

"I'm not writing for anyone at all. I'm writing out of desperation. I felt compelled to write to make sense of it to myself--so I don't end up saying peculiar things like 'I'm black and I'm proud.' I write so I don't end up as a set of slogans and cliches."
New York Times - Jamaica Kincaid (01/25/1996)

"Anyone who imagines that tensions between husband and wife exceed those between parent and child is not paying attention to Jamaica Kincaid."
Time - John Skow (02/05/1996)

"We want to like the motherless Xuela, but because she herself is so scornful of sentiment, we hold back. But as Xuela goes about living her life defiantly on her own terms as a kind of revenge against those who mistreat her and against fate's cruel trick of depriving her of a mother, we come to admire her, however grudgingly. Like Reynolds Price's 'Kate Vaiden,' Xuela becomes an unlikely heroine because of her determination to survive....In a say, Xuela Richardson has had to become her own mother, and her autobiography becomes an unforgettable account of singular survival."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - David Wiegand (01/14/1996)

"Throughout her fiction Kincaid has a gift for compression, for leaving things out, things like dialogue, for instance. But 'The Autobiography of My Mother' is a departure from her previous novels with their descriptions of a recognizable world. Although Xuela's life as she relates it can be summarized as though Kincaid had laid it out conventionally, her meditations push this story, unlike the others, into another realm altogether--a realm that is fable- or dream-like.... Her voice is not folkloric, even if some of her knowledge is peasant-derived. If anything, Kincaid's rhythms and the circularity of her thought patterns in language bring Gertrude Stein to mind. She is an eccentric and altogether impressive descendant."
New York Review of Books - Darryl Pinckney (03/21/1996)

"Meticulously structured chamber music in print--most comparable, perhaps, to Camus' The Stranger...Kincaid's own wealth, the dowry with which she faces the world, is a perfect prose style. It's fascinating to watch her take these several themes and elegantly, precisely, musically work them out to their inevitable conclusion."
Washington Post Book World - Carolyn See 


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Product Category : Books
ISBN : 0374107319
Title : The Autobiography of My Mother
EAN : 9780374107314
Authors : Jamaica Kincaid
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
Publication Date : 1996-01
Pages : 228
Dust Jacket : True
List Price (MSRP) : 20.00
Height : 1.0000 inches
Width : 5.5000 inches
Length : 8.5000 inches
Weight : 0.8000 pounds
Keywords : Kincaid, Jamaica, Historical, Contemporary, General, General AAS, Hardcover, Printed Books
Condition : Good

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