Autobiogrpahy_Of_My_Mother

Autobiogrpahy Of My Mother Many of Jamaica Kincaid's writings contain characters not unlike herself and upon reading her works or summaries of them, one would discover Kincaid to be a hardened Carribean woman with a work history of waiting on others and a personal history of suffocation and desolation. “The Autobiography of My Mother,” written by Kincaid in 1996, attempts to explain a mother from the point of view of a child who never knew her; a child who wrestles with this lost and must accept her mother as the person her own self could have been. With a strong tone of detachment, Jamaica Kincaid creates an autobiographical character who lives in extreme loneliness because she never had a family, most specifically a mother- a very important factor in creating an individual's identity. Kincaid’s character uses her furious will to attempt to define life as it would be if one rejected all the things that immediately define them at birth: family, heritage, language, etc. comes to the knowledge that to live underneath an identity is a crime. The character in this excerpt defines herself as a child without a mother. She explains her emptiness with dark imagery and child, herself, never, ma, eunice, pity, because, mother, love, know, father, character, husband, english, woman, speak, since, own, life, laundry, language, history, family, explains, define, wanted, understand, something, person, one, made, decision, been, allowed, waiting