Date: Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Time: 6:30p - 8:00p
Location: 10-250, Note: room changed to 10-250

Jamaica Kincaid is a celebrated Caribbean-American author whose work is noted for its simple elegant prose that carries the weight of her controversial subjects.

Kincaid is an accomplished novelist and essayist who began as a columnist for the New Yorker and has since published five novels, a collection of short stories, two essay collections, and the long essay "A Small Place," which is one of the most outspoken critiques of British colonization in Anglophone literature.

Her subject matter includes the love and hatred between a mother and daughter, her brother's death from HIV/AIDS, the process of becoming a writer from a black woman's perspective, and the pleasures and politics of gardening.

Jamaica Kincaid is currently a visiting professor at Harvard University where she teaches courses on creative writing, autobiography and Anglophone Caribbean women writers.

Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): Literature Section, With assistance from the MIT Council for the Arts, and the Program in Women's Studies

For more information, contact:
Joli Divon Saraf
617/253-3581
joli@mit.edu