Jamacia Kincaid

             Jamaica Kincaid is a West Indian – born American novelist short story writer, essayist, and journalist. Kincaid began her legacy writing career as a magazine journalist. The Editors of the New Yorker found that Kincaid, an immigrant to the United States, could effectively distance herself from the insights on American culture. They often quoted her in their articles which eventually encouraged Kincaid to write for the magazines "Talk of the Town" column. When Kincaid began to write her fiction novels it proved a perceptive observer of her native Antigua. Jamaica Kincaid's work is a large portion of autobiographical stories and most of the stories often draw attention upon her childhood experiences on the Caribbean. In her fiction, which she is widely and best known, Kincaid examines the intense bonds between parents and children and the effects of the growth process on both generations. Her writing exposes elements from West Indians language folklore, and voodoo. Kincaid is viewed as a participant in the West Indian literary movement, but white colonialist values are rejected in favor of African or native West Indian modes of expression. Her emphasis on female characters and "emotional truthfulness" works in her feminist perspective. Kincaid's fiction work centers on the intense emotional bonds between mothers and daughters and the feelings that sometimes result from such relationships. Kincaid seems to be a very modest writer, she uses pure passion, her past and curious events, her humor, her craft, her voice, and her instincts. Kincaid also appears to be mostly interested in revealing consciousness in her work. She is truly a great writer of her time and should be nominated for many awards regardless of her color and native. She has a kind of writing that's not only eye catching but eye popping. She gets her reader involved with her native land and her childhood. While one rea...

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