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| Life and Debt (documentary film narrated with text written and read by Jamaica Kincaid) |
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| Jamaica — land of sea, sand and sun. And a prime example of the impact economic globalization can have on a developing country. With a voice-over narration written by Jamaica Kincaid, adapted from her award-winning book, A Small Place, Life and Debt is an unapologetic look at the "new world order," from the point of view of Jamaican workers, farmers, government and policy officials who see the reality of globalization from the ground up. The poetic urgency of Kincaid's text lends a first-person understanding of the legacy of the country's colonial past and the "mechanism of debt" that is destroying local agriculture and industry while substituting sweatshops and cheap imports. In his review for The New York Times, Steven Holden wrote: "It offers the clearest analysis of globalization and its negative effects that I've ever seen on a movie or television screen." (Source: PBS) |
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| Autobiography of My Mother |
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| In this novel, Kincaid presents us with the haunting, deeply charged story of a woman's life on the island of Dominica. In their review, The New York Times said, "Kincaid has written a truly ugly meditation on life in some of the most beautiful prose we are likely to find in contemporary fiction."
(From: Farrar, Straus, Giroux) |
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| Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya |
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| In this travel memoir, Kincaid shares her journey, with three botanist friends, into the foothills of the Himalayas in search of rare plants to bring back to her Vermont Garden. Publishers Weekly called it, "[A book] as much about a place as it is about overcoming fears and embracing the unfamiliar."
(From: Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
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| Mr. Potter |
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| The island of Antigua comes vibrantly to life under the gaze of Mr. Potter, an illiterate taxi chauffeur who makes his living along the wide, open roads that pass the only towns he has ever seen and the graveyard where he will be buried. The sun shines squarely overhead, the ocean lies on every side, and suppressed passion fills the air.
(From: Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
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| Talk Stories |
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| A collection of Jamaica Kincaid's original writing for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town," composed during the time when she first came to the United States from Antigua (from 1978 to 1983). The book also records Kincaid's development as a young writer; The newcomer who sensitively records her impressions here takes root to become one of our most respected authors.
(From: Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
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| My Garden (Book) |
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| Here, Kincaid gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves. In their review, The New York Times said, "[Kincaid] is able to do something that is almost never done in garden writing, and do it very well. (From: Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
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| My Brother |
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| A successful writer living in Vermont with her husband and two children, Kincaid is called back to her West Indian home on Antigua where her youngest brother, Devon, is dying of AIDS. During Devon's last year she visits Antigua frequently to help her mother nurse him. Her unblinking record of a life that ended too early speaks volumes about the difficult truths at the heart of all families. “Controlled and fearless perfection,” raved The Washington Post.
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| At the Bottom of the River |
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| In these inspired, lyrical short stories, Kincaid leads her readers to consider, as if for the first time, the powerful ties between mother and child; the beauty and destructiveness of nature; the gulf between the masculine and the feminine; the significance of familiar things--a house, a cup, a pen.
(From Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
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Lucy
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| In this coming-of-age story Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North America to work as an au pair for Lewis and Mariah and their four children. Lewis and Mariah are handsome, rich, and seemingly happy. Yet, alomst at once, Lucy begins to notice cracks in their beautiful facade. In their review, The Wall Street Journal callled the book "Brilliant," and said "Lucy confirms Ms. Kincaid as a both a daughter of Bronte and Woolf and her own inimitable self."
(From: Farrar, Staus and Giroux) |
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| A Small Place |
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| A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua. Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies.
(From: Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
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| Annie John |
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| A haunting and provocative story of a young girl growing up on the island of Antigua. A classic coming-of-age story in the tradition of The Catcher in the Rye and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Kincaid’s novel focuses on a universal, tragic, and often comic theme: the loss of childhood. Annie’s voice—urgent, demanding to be heard—is one that will not soon be forgotten by readers.
(from: Farrar, Straus and Giroux) |
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| Life and Debt (film) |
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| Jamaica — land of sea, sand and sun. And a prime example of the impact economic globalization can have on a developing country. Utilizing excerpts from Jamaica Kincaid's award-winning non-fiction text A Small Place, Life and Debt is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survivial and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas. The poetic urgency of Kincaid's text lends a first-person understanding of the legacy of the country's colonial past, and to its present day economic challenges. A searing film dissects the "mechanism of debt" that is destroying local agriculture and industry while substituting sweatshops and cheap imports. With a voice-over narration written by Jamaica Kincaid, adapted from her book A SMALL PLACE, LIFE AND DEBT is an unapologetic look at the "new world order," from the point of view of Jamaican workers, farmers, government and policy officials who see the reality of globalization from the ground up |
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