Grand Valley State University will host the renowned writer and distinguished academic lecturer, Jamaica Kincaid on Tuesday, September 18 at 7:00 p.m. at the L.V. Eberhard Center (Pew Grand Rapids Campus). Ms. Kincaid will speak about her perspectives on writing, inspiration and motivation at this Fall Arts Celebration event. For information about this event, please visit www.gvsu.edu/fallarts or call (616) 331-2180.
The university libraries have a number of books by and about Jamaica Kincaid. Here are a few of them – please take a look!
Books by Jamaica Kincaid:
Annie John (http://voyager.gvsu.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=70593)
At the Bottom of the River (http://voyager.gvsu.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=835176)
The Autobiography of My Mother (http://voyager.gvsu.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=240184)
Lucy (http://voyager.gvsu.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=437249)
Mr. Potter (http://voyager.gvsu.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=835183)
My Garden (book) (http://voyager.gvsu.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=835177)
A Small Place (http://voyager.gvsu.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=175062)
Books about Jamaica Kincaid and/or her works:
Jamaica Kincaid : writing memory, writing back to the mother / J. Brooks Bouson (http://voyager.gvsu.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=632284)
Multicultural writers since 1945 : an A-to-Z guide / edited by Alba Amoia and Bettina L. Knapp (Multicultural writers since 1945 : an A-to-Z guide / edited by Alba Amoia and Bettina Knapp (http://voyager.gvsu.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=513766)
Whiteness and trauma : the mother-daughter knot in the fiction of Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, and Toni Morrison / Victoria Burrows (http://voyager.gvsu.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=549004)
Contemporary American women fiction writers : an A-to-Z guide / edited by Laurie Champion and Rhonda Austin (http://voyager.gvsu.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=486160)
Jamaica Kincaid [e-Book] : a critical companion / Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert (http://voyager.gvsu.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=835915)
