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The autobiography of my mother, Jamaica Kincaid

Label
The autobiography of my mother, Jamaica Kincaid
Language
eng
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The autobiography of my mother
Oclc number
31166370
Responsibility statement
Jamaica Kincaid
Summary
The West Indian narrator vents her bitterness at the unhappy life fate dealt her--mother died in childbirth, father ignored her, stepmother tried to kill her, at school she had an abortion. Finally, she married a white doctor, but it was impossible for her to love him because he was a colonialist. She draws parallels with the despair of her country--Dominica--attributing it to the legacy of slavery. By the author of Lucy
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