Example sentences for: kincaid

How can you use “kincaid” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Kincaid is nothing if not an optimist, though, and he believes that if what's wrong with the way we talk about child molesting is genre--we're telling the wrong kinds of stories--well, then we should just start telling different ones.

  • Book -- My Brother , by Jamaica Kincaid;

  • Kincaid's favorite fictional themes show up in My Brother , and they gain from the real-life urgency.

  • There's the messed-up sexuality of Antigua, the way girls are taught to be virgins while boys are encouraged to be careless and promiscuous; Kincaid's heroines have suffered from this sick training, and here we watch it slowly kill her brother.

  • It's possible to dismiss such prescriptions as naive, but in the context of the quasideterministic Foucauldianism from which Kincaid's brand of cultural criticism emerges, they're refreshing--even startling.


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