Jamaica Kincaid
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Jamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan-American novelist, essayist, gardener, and gardening writer. Born in St. John's, the capital of Antigua and Barbuda, she lives in North Bennington, Vermont, and is Professor of African and African American Studies in Residence Emerita at Harvard University.
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I suppose that my work is always mourning something, the loss of a paradise - not the thing that comes after you die, but the thing that you had before.
Interview with The Paris Review (2022)
You can probably tell from my writing that I’m obsessed with notions of justice and injustice - those things that are wrong that can never be made right.
Interview with The Paris Review (2022)
We weren’t taught Shakespeare or Milton in order to understand our own situation - they were taught as the jewels in Queen Victoria’s crown.
Interview with The Paris Review (2022)
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