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The autobiography of my mother

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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  • "Autobiography of my mother"@es
  • "Autobiography of my mother"@it
  • "Autobiography of my mother"

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  • "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."@en
  • "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."
  • ""¿Novela de iniciación? ¿Rebeldía de una hija ante una ausencia ominosa? ¿Fusión de la narrativa de género con la opresión del Imperio? Autobiografía de mi madre tiene que ver con todo eso pero sus alcances trascienden largemente los ejes mencionados. El lacerante texto de Kincaid puede leerse como una balada sobre la pérdida y, también, como la recuperación de lo efímero a través de la palabra. Valiente registro de la historia personal de la autora esta 'autobiografía' habla de un personaje casi invisible que a lo largo del relato se vuelve omnipresente. Kincaid escribe con pasión y rabia, sin perder por ello la excelencia narrativa. Xuela, la protagonista, va mutando de niña huérfana a mujer en medio de un relato poblado de madres, hermanas y esposas, cuyas tensas relaciones son la materia prima de la saga. La familia, la escuela, la pareja, el sexo y el lamentable saldo del colonialismo se mixturan en esta historia enhebrada desde una franqueza brutal y, a la vez, con una conmovedora delicadeza"--Page 4 of cover."
  • "After growing up without a mother Xuela Claudette Richardson again finds herself imagining what the woman might have been like and how her own life might have turned out different had her mother not died."@en
  • "After growing up without a mother Xuela Claudette Richardson again finds herself imagining what the woman might have been like and how her own life might have turned out different had her mother not died."
  • ""The narrator of this novel is Xuela Claudette Richardson. 'Raised without love and self-defined by her mother's death at the moment of her birth, Xuela regards life in her Dominican villages with disturbing disinterest and keen penetration....Haunted by her mother's absence, Xuela ensures her own barrenness, endures a loveless affair with and marriage to the English doctor Philip, who loves her, and rejoices with stevedore Roland, whom she loves -- or claims to.'" Libr J "In Kincaid's 'poised and crystalline prose, precise and serene as a knife drawn through water, she now gives us this starkly memorable "self-portrait" of a calm, thoughtful, utterly alienated woman who has learned to lead a life devoid of live, but not devoid of dignity.'" Christ Sci Monit."@en
  • "Het levensverhaal van een door eenzaamheid getekende vrouw op Dominica."
  • "Après deux romans autobiographiques, Jamaica Kincaid a conçu ce projet, non dénué de perversité : l'autobiographie fictive de sa propre mère ... mais qui n'aurait pas eu d'enfant, comme si elle ne l'avait jamais mise au monde."

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  • "Americké romány"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"@pl
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "American fiction"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@es
  • "Novela social"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Eleberri soziala"

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  • "La autobiografía de mi madre"
  • "La autobiografía de mi madre"@es
  • "The autobiography of my mother : [a novel]"
  • "Autobiographie de ma mère"@es
  • "Autobiographie de ma mère"
  • "Nire amaren autobiografia"
  • "Autobiografía de mi madre"
  • "Autobiografía de mi madre"@es
  • "Vlastní životopis mé matky"
  • "Min mors selvbiografi : roman"@da
  • "De autobiografie van mijn moeder : roman"
  • "Die Autobiographie meiner Mutter : Roman"
  • "Autobiographie de ma mère : roman"
  • "Autobiografia di mia madre"
  • "Autobiografia di mia madre"@it
  • "La autobiografia de mi madre"
  • "Autobiography of my mother"
  • "Min mors selvbiografi : Roman"
  • "The autobiography of my mother"@en
  • "The autobiography of my mother"
  • "Autobiografia mojej matki"@pl
  • "La Autobiografía de mi madre"
  • "The Autobiography of my mother"@en
  • "The Autobiography of my mother"
  • "Die Autobiographie meiner Mutter"
  • "Die Autobiografie meiner Mutter"

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