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Jamaica Kincaid, rozená Elanie Potter Richardson je antigujská spisovatelka a esejistka žijící a působící ve Spojených státech amerických. Narodila se na ostrově Antigua, který je součástí ostrovního státu Antigua a Barbuda. V současnosti žije v North Benningtonu ve státě Vermont. Působí jako profesorka anglické literatury na univerzitě Claremont McKenna College v Clermontu. Za své dílo získala řadu ocenění, mimo jiné Guggenheimovy ceny za beletrii. Její tvorba je však často kritizována pro svoji vysokou míru zloby, částečně způsobenou vysokou mírou autobiografičnosti. Patří k významným představitelkám karibské exilové literatury. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. květen 1949
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Jamaica Kincaid: Citáty anglicky

“Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.”

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“No matter how happy I had been in the past I do not long for it. The present is always the moment for which I love.”

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Zdroj: The Autobiography of My Mother

“I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through.”

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Zdroj: The Autobiography of My Mother

“That was the moment he got the idea he possessed me in a certain way, and that was the moment I grew tired of him.”

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Zdroj: Lucy

“Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself?”

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Zdroj: Lucy

“The inevitable is no less a shock just because it is inevitable.”

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Zdroj: The Autobiography of My Mother

“I understood that I was inventing myself, and that I was doing this more in the way of a painter than in the way of a scientist. I could not count on precision or calculation; I could only count on intuition.”

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Zdroj: Lucy

“In the place I’m from you don’t have much room. You have the sea. If you step on the sea, you sink. The only thing the sea can do is take you away. People living on a tiny island are not expected to have deep thoughts about how they live, their right to live. You can have little conflicts, disagreements about what side of the street to walk on, but you cannot disagree that perhaps there should not be a street there. You cannot disagree about fundamental things, which is what an artist would do. All they’re left with is a kind of pastoral beauty, a kind of natural beauty, and wonderful trinkets…”

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On the limited opportunities in her country of origin in “Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?” https://www.guernicamag.com/does-truth-have-a-tone/ in Guernica (2013 Jun 17)

“The thing about writing in America—and I just recently understood this—is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect to be successful, and really it’s the wrong thing. It’s not a profession. A professional writer is a joke. You write because you can’t do anything else, and then you have another job. I’m always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you should have something to write about, and you only have something to write about if you do something. If you just sit there, and you’re a writer, you’re bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot of American writers are professionals. Writing is not a profession. It’s a calling. It’s almost holy…”

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On her views of writing in “Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?” https://www.guernicamag.com/does-truth-have-a-tone/ in Guernica (2013 Jun 17)

“Everything I do is because of writing. If I go for a walk, it’s because I’m thinking of writing. I go look at flowers, I go look at the garden, I go look at a museum, but it’s all coming back to writing. I don’t really do anything that isn’t about writing, and I don’t really know who I am if I’m not thinking about writing.”

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On her obsession with writing in “Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?” https://www.guernicamag.com/does-truth-have-a-tone/ in Guernica (2013 Jun 17)

“I don’t like to hear people speaking in my work. I like reading it, and I marvel at people who can do it well. And there’s something when you see it done well. It’s just so terrific. But I’m not able to do it.”

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On the lack of dialogue in her works in “An Interview with Jamaica Kincaid” https://believermag.com/an-interview-with-jamaica-kincaid/ in The Believer (2003 Jul 1)