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Book SynopsisThere is perhaps no other person who has been so often and obsessively featured in any writer’s canon as Jamaica Kincaid’s mother, Annie Drew. In this provocative new book, Daryl Dance argues that everything Kincaid has written, regardless of its apparent theme, actually relates to Kincaid’s efforts to free herself from her mother.
Trade Review"In Search of Annie Drew
is daring, controversial, and impressive. Through meticulous attention to Kincaid’s own words, as well as to the few that Drew provided, Dance succeeds in showing a tangled emotional relationship between two exceptionally strong personalities, neither of whom would admit--consistently and directly--her tremendous love for the other. This war of a relationship is responsible for the writer Kincaid became as well as for the subject matter of most of her works." — Trudier Harris, University of Alabama, author of Saints, Sinners, Saviors: Strong Black Women in African American Literature"This study, interwoven with Annie’s friends’accounts and Kincaid’s literary world, reveals a fascinating glimpse of Annie Drew’s life, albeit inextricably tied to Kincaid’s. Anyone acquainted with Kincaid’s work will be intrigued by this portrayal." — Journal of Postcolonial Writing
