Jamaica Kincaid
"Coming of Age in a Small Place"
Monday, February 11, 2008   
7 pm, Kenan Auditorium

Celebrated Caribbean-American author Jamaica Kincaid is an accomplished novelist and essayist who began as a columnist for The New Yorker. She has since published five novels, a collection of short stories, two essay collections and the long essay, "A Small Place," one of the most outspoken critiques of British colonization in Anglophone literature. Her essay inspired the 2001 documentary, Life & Debt, which explores the impact of economic globalization on developing countries and features a voice-over narration written by Kincaid.  Co-sponsored with Student Media, the Graduate School and GSA. 

A question and answer session and book signing will follow the lecture.

Box Office & Information                                                                                                  
Free UNCW Students, faculty and staff and $9 Public.  Call Kenan Box Office at 962.3500.  For class tickets, call Shannon Hooker at 962.7600.

About Leadership Lecture Series                                                                                   
The Leadership Lecture Series serves as a forum for intellectual inquiry and discussion offering the campus and community opportunities to discuss and explore the political, cultural and economic trends and issues that shape and affect our communities today.  By inviting a speaker to the campus, the university does not endorse any particular position.  Expect to be enlightened, challenged and inspired.