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Putting myself together writing 1974-

"A collection of the inimitable writer's essays, stories, and articles from her early days at The Village Voice through her time at The New Yorker "-- Provided by publisher.

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Main Author: Kincaid, Jamaica (Author)
Other Authors: Gates, Henry Louis, Jr (Writer of introduction)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Kincaid, Jamaica > Literary collections.
Essays.
Literary criticism.
Literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • The triumph of bad and cool (1974)
  • Erotica! (1975)
  • If mammies ruled the world (1975)
  • Pam Grier (1975)
  • The Labelle hustle (1975)
  • Last of the black white girls (1976)
  • Jamaica Kincaid's New York (1977)
  • Antigua crossings (Fiction) (1978)
  • Ovando (Fiction) (1989)
  • Athol Fugard (Interview by Jamaica Kincaid) (1990)
  • The finishing line (Fiction) (1990)
  • Foreword to 'Babouk: Voices of Resistance' (1991)
  • On seeing England for the first time (1991)
  • Biography of a dress (1992)
  • An Antiguan election journal (1994)
  • Christmas pictures from a warm climate (1994)
  • Introduction to 'The Best American Essays, 1995'
  • The little revenge from the periphery (1997)
  • Introduction to 'Generations of Women' (1998)
  • Introduction to 'My Favorite Plant' (1998)
  • Introduction to 'Poetics of Place' (1998)
  • Looking at Giverny (1998)
  • Those words that echo... echo... echo through life (1999)
  • Islander once, now a voyager (2000)
  • Sowers and reapers (2001)
  • Her best friend provokes her to write about her garden (2002)
  • Splendor in the glass (2002)
  • The garden of the year just passed (2002)
  • The lure of the poppy (2002)
  • Gardening (2003)
  • Living history in Vermont (2003)
  • Desert blooms (2004)
  • Jumby Bay (2004)
  • Introduction to 'The Best American Travel Writing, 2005'
  • Formal meets folly (2005)
  • Foreword to Ian Frazier's 'Gone to New York' (2006)
  • Captain's farm (2006)
  • Foreword to Alexandre Dumas's 'Georges' (2007)
  • Dances with daffodils (2007)
  • Her infinite variety (2008)
  • The estrangement (2009)
  • Lack, Part two (2009)
  • Tide (2011)
  • Introduction to Simone Schwarz-Bart's 'The Bridge of Beyond' (2013)
  • The kind of gardener I am not (2018)
  • The walk to Robert Frost's house (2019)
  • A letter to Robinson Crusoe (2019)
  • I see the world (2020)
  • Inside the American snow dome (2020)
  • I was never really making a garden so much as having a conversation (2020)
  • The disturbances of the garden (2020)
  • Acknowledgments.

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