Jamaica Kincaid

Kincaid, Jamaica - 1949–, West Indian–American writer, b. Antigua as Elaine Potter Richardson. She immigrated to the United States at 16 and later became a U.S. citizen. Changing her name (1973), she became a New Yorker staff writer in 1976, working there until 1996. Kincaid first became known for her lush tales of Caribbean life—in her first short-story collection, At the Read More...

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Jamaica Kincaid: A Critical Companion
by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. 186 pgs.

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With the publication of her novel Annie John in 1985, Jamaica Kincaid entered the ranks of the best novelists of her generation. Her three autobiographical novels, Annie John, Lucy, and Autobiography of My Mother, and collection of short stories, At the Bottom of the River, touch on the universal theme of coming of age and the female adolescent's need to sever her ties to her mother. This angst is couched in the social landscape of post-colonial Antigua, a small Caribbean island whose legacy of racism affects Kincaid's protagonists. Her fiction rewrites the history of the Caribbean from a West Indies perspective and this milieu colors the experiences of her characters.

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Advisory Board

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Series Foreword

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1: The Life of Jamaica Kincaid

2: From Elaine Potter Richardson to Jamaica Kincaid

3: At the Bottom of the River (1983)

4: Annie John (1985)

5: Lucy (1990)

6: The Autobiography of My Mother (1997)

Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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Face to Face: Interviews with Contemporary Novelists ("I Come from a Place That's Very Unreal: An Interview with Jamaica Kincaid" begins on p. 77)
by Allan Vorda. 238 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Stuck on the Margins: An Interview with Kazuo Ishiguro

A Continuing Act of Wonder: An Interview With Max Apple

A Fish Swims in My Lung: An Interview with Cristina Garcia

I Come from a Place That's Very Unreal an Interview With: Jamaica Kincaid

A Hard Kind of Play: An Interview with Ron Hansen

The Forging of Science Fiction: An Interview with Greg Bear

A Life of Perished Things: An Interview with Marilynne Robinson

Examining the Disease: An Interview with Hubert Selby, Jr.

Stroking the Sweet-Sour Depths: An Interview with Robert Stone
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Snapshots: 20th Century Mother-Daughter Fiction ("Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid begins on p. 95)
by Joyce Carol Oates, Janet Berliner. 242 pgs.

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A collection of 17 stories from the pens of some of today's most important female authors, including Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Mary Gordon, Jamaica Kincaid, & Isabel Allende.

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Foreword

Introduction

Wicked Girl

Consuelo's Letter

Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother

The Allies

Cleaning Up

La Lloradora

An Ordinary Woman

Girl

Solitude

How to Talk to Your Mother (notes)

Kiswana Browne

A Rose in the Heart of New York

Mousetrap

Up Above Diamond City

Eveyday Use

Death Mother

Everything Old is New Again

Contributors' Notes

Copyright Acknowledgments
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Ancestral House: The Black Short Story in the Americas and Europe ("Song of Roland" by Jamaica Kincaid begins on p. 317)
by Charles H. Rowell. 606 pgs.

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The 70 uncut stories in this collection comprise 36 writers from the United States and 34 from Europe and the Americas. It is an anthology which exemplifies the diversity of writers from the African diaspora.

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Foreword

Introduction

APPENDIX A

APPENDIX A

Acknowledgments

ABSOLUTION

MY SINGULAR IRENE

WILLIE BEA AND JAYBIRD

THE ORGANIZER'S WIFE

WORDS

MISS ASKEW ON ICE

I USED TO LIKE THE DALLAS COWBOYS

THE EVENING AND THE MORNING AND THE NIGHT

CIVILIZATION

THEY CALLED HER AURORA (THE LOVE OF DONNA SUMMER)

CHERRY BOMB

GRIFF

COLUMBA

THE VISIT

NIGHT THOUGHTS

AVENUES

TAPESTRY

ROSENA ON THE MOUNTAIN

UNDER THE ROSE THE ELDEST

SWEAT, SUGAR, AND BLOOD

GLOSSARY

ARK OF BONES

A LETTER

THE MIRACLE

RANDALL RANDALL

THIS MAN AND ME

THREE MEN

ACCIDENTS

BY LOVE POSSESSED

SHE WAKES

KANAIMA

PRESENCE

CIRCLE OF SHADE

ALĒTHIA

THE FIRST DAY

THE FISHERMAN'S HOUSE

TRANSITS

MY NEXT-TO-LAST HIT

THE ORIGIN OF WHALES

SONG OF ROLAND

THE BLUE ROOM

MARRIAGE BONES

SHOEMAKER ARNOLD

CITY FLESH AND COUNTRY MANNERS

SOME GET WASTED

SPECIMEN

THE MORE I LIKE FLIES

QUILTING ON THE REBOUND

BLACK PIECES

THE STORY OF A SCAR

I DO NOT TAKE MESSAGES FROM DEAD PEOPLE

A HAPPY STORY

RECITATIF

A PLAY

VOODOO

BEWITCHED

THE DEVIL'S MAW

JUBY'S MORNING

STOP FRAME

YAWETIR

ENOUGH RIDES

KEEP A SECRET

THE INHERITANCE OF MY FATHER: A STORY FOR LISTENING

THE LITTLE WHITE GIRL

THIS CITY OF MEN

You Think I Mad, Miss?

HER HEAD A VILLAGE

SONATINA FOR TWO DRUMS

KEMBÉ (CHRONICLE-GOSPEL FOR A CERTAIN DECEMBER 19TH)

NINETEEN FIFTY-FIVE

FEVER

About the Book and Editor

Notes on Contributors
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Understanding Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents
by Deborah Mistron. 212 pgs.

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Introduction

1: Literary Analysis of Annie John

2: Historical Context

3: Spirituality in Antigua

4: A Colonial Education

5: Social Context

6: Leaving Home

Index
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The Rhythm of Reality in the Works of Jamaica Kincaid, in World Literature Today
by Diane Simmons. 7 pgs.

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Anger in a Small Place: Jamaica Kincaid's Cultural Critique of Antigua, in College Literature
by Keith E. Byerman. 12 pgs.

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Winds of Change: The Transforming Voices of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (Chap. 4 "Caribbean Writers and Caribbean Language: A Study of Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John")
by Adele S. Newson, Linda Strong-Leek. 240 pgs.

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Preface

Introduction

Part One: Language, Orality, and Voice

1. De Language Reflea Dem Ethos: Some Issues with Nation Language

2. Language and Identity: The Use of Different Codes in Jamaican Poetry

3. Orality and Writing: A Revisitation

4. Caribbean Writers and Caribbean Language:: A Study of Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John

5. Francophone Caribbean Women Writers and the Diasporic Quest for Identity: Marie Chauvet's Amour and Maryse Condé's Hérémakhonon

6. Unheard Voice: Suzanne Césaire and the Construct of a Caribbean Identity

7. The Silent Game

Part Two: Politics and Economics of Caribbean Life

8. The Politics of Literature: Dominican Women and the Suffrage Movement Case Study: Delia Weber

9. Children in Haitian Popular Migration as Seen by Maryse Condé and Edwidge Danticat

10. I'll Fly Away: Reflections on Life and the Death Penalty

11. Of Popular Balladeers: Narrative, Gender, and Popular Culture

12. Between the Milkman and the Fax Machine: Challenges to Women Writers in the Caribbean

Part Three: Beryl A. Gilroy. World Griot

13. Frangipani House: Beryl Gilroy's Praise Song for Grandmothers

14. Anguish and the Absurd: "Key Moments," Recreated Lives, and the Emergence of New Figures of Black Womanhood in the Narrative Works of Beryl Gilroy

15. Women of Color at the Barricades

Part Four: Expressions: Literary Theory and Exile

16. Women Against the Grain: The Pitfalls of Theorizing Caribbean Women's Writing

17. Ex/Isle: Separation, Memory, and Desire in Caribbean Women's Writing

18. Dangerous Liaison: Western Literary Values, Political Engagements, and My Own Esthetics

19. The Dynamics of Power and Desire in The Pagoda

20. Voices of the Black Feminine Corpus in Contemporary Brazilian Literature

Notes

Bibliography

Contributors

Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars: A Select Bibliography

Index
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Obvious and Ordinary: Desire between Girls in Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John, in Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies
by Keja Valens. 27 pgs.

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Arms Akimbo: Africana Women in Contemporary Literature (Chap. 7 "Snapshots of Childhood Life in Jamaica Kincaid's Fiction")
by Janice Lee Liddell, Yakini Belinda Kemp. 268 pgs.

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Edited collection of essays examining the fiction of contemporary Africana women including Ama Ata Aidoo, Shirley Anne Williams, Ntozake Shange, Flora Nwapa, Maryse Conde, Elizabeth Nunez Harrell, Jamaica Kinkaid and others.

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Foreword

Introduction

Part 1 A Birthing of Self

1 Psychic Rage and Response The Enslaved and the Enslaver In Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose

2 Voyages Beyond Lust and Lactation The Climacteric as Seen in Novels By Sylvia Wynter, Beryl Gilroy, and Paule Marshall

3 A Woman's Art; a Woman's Craft The Self in Ntozake Shange's Sassafras, Cypress, and Indigo

4 Coming Home to Herself Autonomy and Self-Conversion In Flora Nwapa's One is Enough

Part 2 Relationships: Mothering, Marrying, Mistressing, and Women to Women Disengaging the Family Romance

5 When Difference is Not the Dilemma The Black Woman Couple In African American Women's Fiction

6 "Devouring Gods" And "Sacrificial Animals" The Male-Female Relationship In Ama Ata Aidoo's Changes: a Love Story

7 Snapshots of Childhood Life In Jamaica Kincaid's Fiction

8 Fire and Ice The Socioeconomics of Romantic Love In When Rocks Dance by Elizabeth Nunez-Harrell

Part 3 War on All Fronts Race, Class, Sex, Age, and Nationality

9 Agents of Pain and Redemption In Sapphire's Push

10 Romantic Love and the Individual In Novels by Mariama Bâ, Buchi Emecheta, and Bessie Head

11 The Politics of Exile Ama Ata Aidoo's Our Sister Killjoy

12 Sense Make Befoh Book" Grenadian Popular Culture and the Rhetoric of Revolution In Merle Collins's Angel and the Colour of Forgetting

Part 4 Invention and Convention Womanist Gazes on Literary and Critical Traditions

13 Meditations on Her/Story Maryse Conde's I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem And the Slave Narrative Tradition

14 Guyana's Historical Sociology and The Novels of Beryl Gilroy and Grace Nichols

15 Textual Deviancy and Cultural Syncretism

16 "A Girl Marries a Monkey" The Folktale as an Expression of Value And Change in Society

17 Revolutionary Brilliance The Afrofemcentric Aesthetic

Contributors

Index
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The Immigrant Experience in North American Literature: Carving out a Niche (Chap. 5 "Developing Negatives: Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy")
by Katherine B. Payant, Toby Rose. 198 pgs.

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Although many studies have been done of individual authors, at present few works exist which compare different immigrant literatures from the past and present. This work draws broad conclusions about the changes in American attitudes toward immigration and diverse cultures that are reflected in the literature. This book examines the representation of the immigrant experience in North American literature. Most of the chapters discuss the portrayal of particular ethnic groups by specific authors during a century of American and Canadian history. The introductory and concluding essays provide historical, cultural, and literary contexts for a comparative approach to the experiences of different ethnic groups.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Stories of the Uprooted

Notes

Works Cited

1: In(ter)dependent Selves: Mary Antin, Elizabeth Stern, and Jewish Immigrant Women's Autobiography

Notes

Works Cited

2: Justifying Individualism: Anzia Yezierska's Bread Givers

Works Cited

3: Fighting the Trolls on the Dakota Plains: The Ecstasy and the Agony of Norwegian Immigrants' Lives in O. E. Rolvaag's Giants in the Earth

Works Consulted

4: Jasmine or the Americanization of an Asian: Negotiating Between "Cultural Arrest" and Moral Decay in Immigrant Fictions

Notes

Works Cited

5: Developing Negatives: Jamaica Kincaid's Lucy

Notes

Works Cited

6: Speaking and Listening: The Immigrant as Spy Who Comes in from the Cold

Works Cited

7: Repositioning the Stars: Twentieth-Century Narratives of Asian American Immigration

Works Cited

8: Borderland Themes in Sandra Cisneros's Woman Hollering Creek

9: Crossroads Are Our Roads: Paule Marshall's Portrayal of Immigrant Identity Themes

Primary Sources

10: Motherland Versus Daughterland in Judith Ortiz Cofer's the Line of the Sun

Notes

Works Consulted

110: Basan and Hybridity: Necessary Cultural Strategies

Works Cited

12: Becoming Americans: Gish Jen's Typical American

Works Consulted

12: Becoming Americans: Gish Jen's Typical American

Works Consulted

Works Consulted

Works Cited

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Contributors
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The Garden and the World: Jamaica Kincaid and the Cultural Borders of Ecocriticism, in Mosaic (Winnipeg)
by Susie O'Brien. 18 pgs.

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Jamaica Kincaid and the Genealogy of Exile, in Small Axe
by Belinda Edmondson. 8 pgs.

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Jamaica Kincaid and the Canon: In Dialogue with "Paradise Lost" and "Jane Eyre," in MELUS
by Diane Simmons. 22 pgs.

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Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Jamaica Kincaid (1949-)" begins on p. 255)
by Daryl Cumber Dance. 532 pgs.

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"Even when available elsewhere, information on these 50 English-language authors is sparse; the in-depth treatment here includes biography, description of major works and themes, summary of critical reception, and an exhaustive bibliography of works by and about each author. Both academic and public libraries will want to accept this invitation to another world." Library Journal

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COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Phyllis Shand Allfrey (1915)

Bibliography

Michael Anthony (1932)

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Lindsay Barrett (1941)

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Louise Bennett (1919)

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Dionne Brand (1953)

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Edward Kamau Brathwaite (1930)

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Erna Brodber (1940)

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Wayne Vincent Brown (1944)

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Jan Carew (1925)

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Martin Wylde Carter (1927)

Austin Clarke (1934)

Frank Collymore (1893-1980)

O. R. Dathorne (1934)

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Neville Dawes (1926-1984)

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Reinhard W. Sander Ralph de Boissiére (1907)

Jean D'Costa (1937)

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Herbert George de Lisser (1878-1944)

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John Joseph Maria Figueroa (1920)

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Wilson Harris (1921)

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John Hearne (1926)

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Roy A. K. Heath (1926)

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Frank E. M. Hercules (1917)

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Merle Hodge (1944)

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C. L. R. James (1901)

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Marion Patrick Jones (1934)

Ismith Khan (1925)

Jamaica Kincaid (1949)

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George Lamming (1927)

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Earl Lovelace (1935)

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Claude McKay (1889-1948)

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Anthony McNeill (1941)

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Roger Mais (1905-1955)

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Alfred H. Mendes (1897)

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Edgar Mittelholzer (1909-1965)

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Mervyn Morris (1937)

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V. S. Naipaul (1932)

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Orlando Patterson (1940)

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Vic Reid (1911)

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Jean Rhys (1890-1979)

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Garth St. Omer (1931)

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Andrew Salkey (1928)

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Dennis Scott (1939)

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Samuel Dickson Selvon (1923)

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A. J. Seymour (1914)

Michael Thelwell (1939)

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Derek Walcott (1930)

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Eric Walrond (1898-1966)

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Denis Williams (1923)

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Francis Williams (1700-1770)

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Sylvia Wynter (1928)

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General Bibliography

Index

Contributors
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A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English ("Jamaica Kincaid (May 25, 1949-)" begins on p. 225)
by Erin Fallon, R. C. Feddersen, James Kurtzleben, Maurice A. Lee, Susan Rochette-Crawley. 432 pgs.

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Though many outstanding novels have been written in the last century, most of these novelists have also been short story writers. This reference is a guide to contemporary English-language short story writers and their works. Included are alphabetically arranged entries on roughly 50 writers from around the world, most of whom have been active since 1960. More than half the American writers belong to historically marginalized groups, such as Jewish-Americans, African-Americans, and Asian-Americans, and the volume includes entries for slightly more women than men. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides biographical material, a review of criticism, an extended analysis of specific works, and a selected bibliography.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: A Glance at the History of the Short Story in English

Chinua Achebe

Ama Ata Aidoo

Jessica Anderson

Margaret Eleanor Atwood

Toni Cade Bambara

John Simmons Barth

Donald Barthelme

Ann Beattie

Morley Callaghan

Angela (Olive) Carter

Raymond Carver

Sandra Cisneros

Robert Coover

Anita Desai

(Karen)Louise Erdrich

Richard Ford

Janet Frame

Ernest J. Gaines

Mavis Gallant

Nadine Gordimer

Patricia Grace

Gish Jen

Charles Richard Johnson

Elizabeth Jolley

Jamaica Kincaid

Maxine Hong Kingston

Doris Lessing

Bernard Malamud

Bobbie Ann Mason

James Alan McPherson

Lorrie Moore

Bharati Mukherjee

Alice Munro

R. K. Narayan

Tim OýBrien

Michael Ondaatje

Cynthia Ozick

Grace Paley

Velma Pollard

Victor Sawdon Pritchett

Jean Rhys

Salman Rushdie

Samuel Dickson Selvon

Olive Senior

Leslie Marmon Silko

Amy Tan

William Trevor

Selected Annotated Bibliography

Index

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