Use Foucault's statement as a lens for thinking about Kincaid's novel:
"One writes in order to become other than what one is."
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..to write or not to write an autobiography...
Eye and I
Will the Read Marilyn Monroe Please Step Forward?
"Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall" Picasso, 1932
a place for sharing ideas about the self writing about the self.
..a staggering genius...
..to write or not to write an autobiography...
Whose autobiography?
...running from and into the family...
Alfred Kazin
Inside History Now
Ironing out the wrinkles?
EGO SPEAKS
Eye and I
Looking for ...
Will the Read Marilyn Monroe Please Step Forward?
What We are Reading
- Dave Eggers "Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
- Vladimir Nabokov "Speak Memory"
- Michael Ondaatje "Running in the Family"
- Mary McCarthy "Memories of a Catholic Girlhood"
- Katharine C. Black "Works in Progress"
- Jamaica Kincaid "The Autobiography of My Mother"
- Frederick Douglass, "My Narrative as a Slave"
- Edwidge Danticat "Brother, I'm Dying"
- Eavan Boland "Object Lessons"
- Alfred Kazin "A Walker in the City"
looking in the mirror
"Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall" Picasso, 1932
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Welcome to a semester of conversations with each other about autobiography! Be sure to check in the night before the class meets the next day for postings & a chance to add your own two cents.
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Perhaps Kincaid has put together this novel, which I still believe has some autobiographical undertones, to escape herself. Maybe she does not have the characteristics of Xuela. Maybe she has submitted to love, and is still on the meaningless search for happiness in life. Perhaps she wants to think like Xuela sometimes. Perhaps she wants to believe in life's only certainty: death. Could that be why she has put together this piece of fiction?
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