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9780452274662
"This book is about Xuela--her voice and her pain. But it is also about that crucial division between the past and history, and about the rending obligation--which no writer of colony can be quite free of--to claim the first by subverting the second. Jamaica Kincaid is attempting to do just this through the voice of Xuela, and in that sense, Xuela's voice becomes the witness to that division."Kincaid, Jamaica is the author of 'Autobiography of My Mother', published 1997 under ISBN 9780452274662 and ISBN 0452274664.
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