See Now Then UAB CD, Jamaica Kincaid; Read by the author
Автор: Kincaid Jamaica Название: Among Flowers: A Walk in the Himalaya ISBN: 0374538107 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374538101 Издательство: Macmillan USA Рейтинг: Цена: 1398.00 р. 1747.00-20% Наличие на складе: Есть (1 шт.) Описание:
In this travel memoir, the acclaimed novelist Jamaica Kincaid chronicles a three-week trek through Nepal, the spectacular and exotic Himalayan land, where she and her companions are gathering seeds for planting at home. The natural world and, in particular, plants and gardening are central to Kincaid's work; in addition to such novels as Annie John and Lucy, Kincaid is the author of My Garden (Book): a collection of essays about her love of cultivating plants and gardens throughout her life. Among Flowers intertwines meditations on nature and stunning descriptions of the Himalayan landscape with observations on the ironies, difficulties, and dangers of this magnificent journey.
For Kincaid and three botanist friends, Nepal is a paradise, a place where a single day's hike can traverse climate zones, from subtropical to alpine, encompassing flora suitable for growing at their homes, from Wales to Vermont. Yet as she makes clear, there is far more to this foreign world than rhododendrons that grow thirty feet high. Danger, too, is a constant companion--and the leeches are the least of the worries. Unpredictable Maoist guerillas live in these perilous mountains, and when they do appear--as they do more than once--their enigmatic presence lingers long after they have melted back into the landscape. And Kincaid, who writes of the looming, lasting effects of colonialism in her works, necessarily explores the irony of her status as memsahib with Sherpas and bearers. A wonderful blend of introspective insight and beautifully rendered description, Among Flowers is a vivid, engrossing, and characteristically frank memoir from one of our most striking voices.
Автор: Kincaid Jamaica Название: Annie john ISBN: 1529077125 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529077124 Издательство: Pan Macmillan Рейтинг: Цена: 1154.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The classic coming-of-age story of a precocious young girl`s deteriorating relationship with her mother, as she enters adolescence and leaves her childhood behind on the idyllic island of Antigua.
Автор: Kincaid, Jamaica Название: Annie John ISBN: 1250322391 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250322395 Издательство: Macmillan USA Рейтинг: Цена: 1563.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Kincaid, Jamaica Название: At the Bottom of the River ISBN: 1250322413 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250322418 Издательство: Macmillan USA Рейтинг: Цена: 1471.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Jamaica Kincaid Название: At the Bottom of the River ISBN: 0374527342 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374527341 Издательство: Macmillan USA Рейтинг: Цена: 1379.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Jamaica Kincaid's At the Bottom of the River ... inspired, lyrical short stories
Reading Jamaica Kincaid is to plunge, gently, into another way of seeing both the physical world and its elusive inhabitants. Her voice is, by turns, naively whimsical and biblical in its assurance, and it speaks of what is partially remembered partly divined. The memories often concern a childhood in the Caribbean--family, manners, and landscape--as distilled and transformed by Kincaid's special style and vision. Kincaid leads her readers to consider, as if for the first time, the powerful ties between mother and child; the beauty and destructiveness of nature; the gulf between the masculine and the feminine; the significance of familiar things--a house, a cup, a pen. Transfiguring our human form and our surroundings--shedding skin, darkening an afternoon, painting a perfect place--these stories tell us something we didn't know, in a way we hadn't expected.
Автор: Jamaica Kincaid Название: Lucy ISBN: 0374527350 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374527358 Издательство: Macmillan USA Рейтинг: Цена: 1471.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Jamaica Kincaid Название: Mr. Potter ISBN: 1250340659 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250340658 Издательство: Macmillan USA Рейтинг: Цена: 1655.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Jamaica Kincaid Название: Mr Potter ISBN: 1529076684 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529076684 Издательство: Pan Macmillan Рейтинг: Цена: 1154.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Jamaica Kincaid Название: My Brother ISBN: 1529077087 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529077087 Издательство: Pan Macmillan Рейтинг: Цена: 1269.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Jamaica Kincaid’s works consistently explore how colonial history affects contemporary everyday lives. Throughout her novels, short fiction, and non-fictional essays, Kincaid’s texts engage with history through its medial representations, which are starkly determined by colonial perspectives. This study examines the entanglements of temporalities in current perceptions of the past and how literary text intervenes in historical consciousness. With a focus on the media text, image, and the human body, the chapters of this book demonstrate how Kincaid’s "poetics of impermanence" counter colonial representations of history with strategies of ambiguity, repetition, and redirection. Kincaid’s texts repeat and revise aspects of colonial history – a process that decenters the totality of historical colonial ideology and replaces it with self-determined versions of the past through a multiplication of perspectives and voices.
Автор: Jamaica Kincaid Название: See Now Then ISBN: 1250340640 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250340641 Издательство: Macmillan USA Рейтинг: Цена: 1563.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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