Jamaica Kincaid

Author Jamaica Kincaid was born in 1949 on the island of Antigua. Then, Elaine Potter Richardson, left the island for New York in 1965, and changed her name in 1973 when her first articles were published. When asked why she did not change her name to an African name, Kincaid replied "the connection I have to Africa is the color of my skin and that doesn't seem enough to have changed it to an African name." As for her new name, "Jamaica is an English corruption of what Columbus called Xaymaca." This renaming is a theme in Kincaid's works both fiction and non-fiction. According to Kincaid, renaming is a metaphor for conquest and colonial domination. From Jamaica Kincaid

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