Roseau, Dominica (photo credit) |
Jean Rhys' Childhood home...is in Dominica too.
We walked around the home, took photos and tried to get a sense of her life and imagined the setting for Wide Sargasso Sea.
Cynthia Pittmann's PhD dissertation research blog on everything related to the writer Jamaica Kincaid and autobiography - including internet exchanges, posts, videos and comments about the author and issues related to autobiography.
Roseau, Dominica (photo credit) |
Pat Strachen |
one800Hollama |
"I went to take a bath and noticed this brown rust thing in my underwear and was terrified of it and I told my mother and, I think she thought it was the best way to act, she said 'oh yes that happens'. And I felt kind of betrayed and nobody had told me that would happen to me so young. I remember I had a lot of pain during it and fainted and had to be sent home." |
Alec Waugh: British World Traveler and Writer |
A reading by Jamaica Kincaid, in Antigua, as rare as...as...rain in drought season |
Antigua's youngest writer at the time, Akilah Jardine, signing copies alongside it's best known writer, Jamaica Kincaid. |
Hip Hop Harvard |
Kincaid listens... |
Introducing Kincaid, US Ambassador to Italy David H. Thorne |
Above, Jamaica Kincaid in audience discussion. Below, from left, Kincaid, AAR Heiskell Arts Director Martin Brody, Alice Waters |