{"product_id":"jamaica-kincaid-j-brooks-bouson-9780791465233","title":"Jamaica Kincaid: Writing Memory, Writing Back to the Mother","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOffers a new perspective on the psychological and affective dynamics of Jamaica Kincaid's fiction and nonfiction.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHaunted by the memories of her powerfully destructive mother, Jamaica Kincaid is a writer out of necessity. Born Elaine Potter Richardson, Kincaid grew up in the West Indies in the shadow of her deeply contemptuous and abusive mother, Annie Drew. Drawing heavily on Kincaid's many remarks on the autobiographical sources of her writings, J. Brooks Bouson investigates the ongoing construction of Kincaid's autobiographical and political identities. She focuses attention on what many critics find so enigmatic and what lies at the heart of Kincaid's fiction and nonfiction work: the \"mother mystery.\" Bouson demonstrates, through careful readings, how Kincaid uses her writing to transform her feelings of shame into pride as she wins the praise of an admiring critical establishment and an ever-growing reading public.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Brooks Bouson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791465233\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791465233\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/21\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.38h x 6.22w x 0.79d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2006 pg. 1012","brand":"J. Brooks Bouson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47419110785279,"sku":"9780791465233","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bacb8687-c4cd-4a87-bc0c-0d50d5610eb8.jpg?v=1761509506","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/jamaica-kincaid-j-brooks-bouson-9780791465233","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}