A selective bibliography of open access internet articles on Jamaica Kincaid, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites
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Ippolito, Emilia. A substantial introduction to Jamaica Kincaid from the Literary Encyclopedia
Schultheis, Alexandra. "Family Matters in Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother." "Ostensibly fiction, yet blurring the lines between genres, Kincaid’s writing uses long lyrical sentences which transform logical oppositions into grammatical companions in order to insist as much on a shared history of black Caribbean women as it does on the speaker’s right to define herself out of that history. Thus the text refuses any nostalgic return to coherent subjectivity, essential gender or racial identifications, or firm national identity, offering instead a voice at once assertive, self-critical, questioning, and angry whose 'very composure…is so unsettling' to our fixed notions of subject and nation." Jouvert 5.2
Simmons, Diane. "Jamaica Kincaid and the Canon: In Dialogue With Paradise Lost and Jane Eyre." Article considers the effects of reading the English classics on the Antiguan schoolgirl Jamaica Kincaid. MELUS, Summer, 1998
An introduction to Jamaica Kincaid in the context of Caribbean history and postcolonial theory, from Professor George Landow's Postcolonial Literature and Cultural Web
An overview of Jamaica Kincaid's life and works with a bibliography, from the Univ. of Minnesota web site "Voices from the Gaps: Women Writers of Color."
A summary of Jamaica Kincaid's achievement from the BBC World Service
An introduction to Jamaica Kincaid from the postcolonial web project at Emory Univ
An overview of Jamaica Kincaid's work, from the World Literatures in English Web Site, Fu Jen University, Taiwan
An accessible, journalistic article on Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother and her themes. By Sarah Kerr in Slate, Oct. 1997
Two easy-read newspaper articles on Jamaica Kincaid, from the Albany Times Union, 1996
A reading group guide for The Autobiography of My Mother, with an introduction to Jamaica Kincaid's themes and some discussion questions, from Penguin Putnam
A teacher's account of leading a class discussion of Jamaica Kincaid's Girl
A review of The Autobiography of My Mother, from the Santa Clara Metro newspaper, Feb. 1996, by Tai Moses
NY Times reviews three of Jamaica Kincaid's novels and a profile of her (requires a one-time registration)
A review of Jamaica Kincaid's Mr. Potter by Sharon Gibson in the Houston Chronicle, July 1992
A review of My Brother, by Elizabeth Manus in the Boston Phoenix, Oct. 1997
Brief review of Talk Stories (2001), 77 short pieces Jamaica Kincaid wrote for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" column between 1974 and 1983, in which she developed her voice and style. Reviewed by Sienna Powers in January Magazine
Jamaica Kincaid tells about the process of writing Mr. Potter, in a NYTimes feature "Writers on Writing," June 1997
An interview with Jamaica Kincaid, The Missouri Review, Volume XV, Number 2 (1992)
An interview with Jamaica Kincaid from Mother Jones magazine, Sept. 1997
An interview with Jamaica Kincaid in Salon.com, May 1998
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