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    A Study Guide for Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl"
    A Study Guide for Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl"
    A Study Guide for Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl"
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    A Study Guide for Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl"

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    A Study Guide for Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 6, 2016
    ISBN9781535823944
    A Study Guide for Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl"

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    A Study Guide for Jamaica Kincaid's "Girl" - Gale

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    Girl

    Jamaica Kincaid

    1978

    Introduction

    First published in the June 26, 1978, issue of The New Yorker, Girl was the first of what would become more than a dozen short stories Jamaica Kincaid published in that magazine. Five years later, Girl appeared as the opening story in Kincaid’s collection of stories, At the Bottom of the River (1983), her first book.

    Girl is a one-sentence, 650-word dialogue between a mother and daughter. The mother does most of the talking; she delivers a long series of instructions and warnings to the daughter, who twice responds but whose responses go unnoticed by the mother. There is no introduction of the characters, no action, and no description of setting. The mother’s voice simply begins speaking, Wash the white clothes on Monday, and continues through to the end. Like all of Kincaid’s fiction, Girl is based on Kincaid’s own life and her relationship with her mother. Although the setting is not specified in the story, Kincaid has revealed in interviews that it takes place in Antigua, her island

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