Mother Jones - Comments for "Jamaica Kincaid Hates Happy Endings"

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Most of her main comments are definitely wrong, pointless and sometime offending like the one you mentioned. It looks like written by a child.

"I feel it's my duty to make everyone a little less happy."

That's a stupid comment to say without clarifying its concept. You can't write that without explaining why you feel that way or telling the meaning other than literal.

If a person reaches happinnes, then trying to make that person less happy has no purpose at all, unless you're a stupid person or have no idea of what happiness is. Which could be this case.

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why did her mother hate her

I think it is very hard to love Jamaica's book or her writing if you’re not a fan of these kinds of novels. I think if you cannot relate to her book or her life in the islands then her work is not for you. I just cannot see a white girl or boy being forced to read this book and actually walking away with something from it after all what have they ever had to struggle for in their life? I found that on some website there were numerous negative comments about her books Annie John, Lucy and The Autobiography of My Mother. I read the Autobiography of my mother and I found that it was hard to read because after reading the second chapter I became un-interested. It was like the books was losing me and every time I was reeled in by an interesting event in the book the protagonist in the book would go off on a tangent and overly describing something so unimportant that I became uninterested in the book again. Since I had to read it for an assignment I was doing I continue to read and found that under all the frills and fluff that writer uses to tell the story... the story itself is interesting and worth hearing or in this case reading but not in so much drown out descriptions that did not bring true version to my mind about the place or atmosphere the book was set in.

The person who wrote that my english is horrific needs to get a life.I was writing a comment not a book your uneducated.Travel the world and come and talk to me then you low life.

Why 'Jamaica"

yo i dont even k i just love her

SHe is a terrible writer

you are AMERICAN! NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS!

Some people get a lot of mileage out of being contentious and thorny. Kincaid is indeed a brilliant writer and a person, like many of us, who's suffered. I find it disconcerting that she married one of those from the hopelessly flawed camp, who, presumably, can never be anything else since they were born "white." I also find it disappointing that she can't see how this thinking is very much in keeping with all the low-level diatribe she finds coming out of the African American mouth. Moreover, she was put on the map as it were by "decent" whites who, I wouldn't catagorize as irreducible cosmic evil. Like bipolar artists who wont take medication for fear of it quelling their creativity -Kincaid hangs on to this unfair and untrue thinking about whites (and blacks for that matter) because she writes from this place of hatred and irritation. Focusing on how the consideration and respect of at least a couple of whites (her husband and editors) and the similar feelings that she and African Americans hold about white oppression could be just the balm that she needs to shift to a better place, psychologically.

and generally it is a rite of passage for many writers - especially women writers - to assume another name, take agency, what have you.

I did not begin to really understand the bond between parent and child until my children became old enough to criticize me with astounding accuracy. Thank you for putting the pretty and the not-so-pretty sides of family relationships into the bright daylight. Sometimes, the truth hurts.

I appreciate kincaide for her honest and about the real thing and not been negitave about the truth. She is a woman of my own heart, taking contolled of your destiny,which makes one stronger to deal with any situtation no matter how hard it is. God Bless

I translated GIRL of Ms. J. Kincaid in 1999 to my mother tongue ORIYA, the language of about 40 million people on the eastern coast of India. As I was doing so, a similar story ran in and out simultaneously. It was the story of my mother admonishing my eldest sister constantly. As a child I resented this in my mother till I suddenly became aware that in some ways, mother was rebelling against the confining society,establishing kinship with my sister- the kinship of all suffering women through all ages- and was actually empowering her rather than limiting her.
The two stories- one, GIRL, faithfully translated; the second, DAUGHTER, which almost walked in and out through the translation to keep company with the original story and could be called a trans creation- converge in an epilogue where I have a conversation with my eighty year old mother-in-law about the two stories and re-discover the meaning of A Strong Woman.
I have not had the permission of Ms. Kincaid before translating her story. It is never too late to do so. If I could kindly be helped with her email address, I would seek her permission as well as post to her the story of two antipode cultures.
To me, WORLD IS ONE WITH DIFFERING BUT SIMILAR INTERPRETATIONS.