le will be omnipotent and omniscient in her work. Thus, ôreadingö Kincaid from a feminist perspective emphasizes the conflicts that Kincaid, as a woman, an author, and a Caribbean exile experiences in her own life (Segal 23).
Margaria Fichtner (1) asserts that ôall novelists are exiles in their world, isolated by their solitary visions of the human experience and the peculiar demands of their craft.ö Kincaid once told an interviewer that ôIÆve never really written about anyone except myself and my mother (Fichtner 1).ö This mother/child, woman-to-woman intergenerational relationship sits at the very heart of The Autobiography of My Mother. For the reader response critic, interpreting or internalizing this relationship is a fundamental task. For the male reader, the task is made more difficult because of the maleÆs inability to fully participate in the female experience.
If reading is, as Fish (19) suggests, a ôprocessö in which meaning emerges in the context of both the written word and the totali
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