Jamaica Kincaid And Anthony

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The Muffled Cries of the Caribbean Do we really know the identity of the Caribbean and its inhabitants? The Caribbean like many other nations has a powerful history that has influenced much of what the Caribbean culture and society is today. However, the Caribbean is seen by the world as a tourist nation that is simply for admiring its geographical beauty. The subalternity of the Caribbean, as a tourist location and its position of servility to its former colonizers raises the question of its identity as a tourist locale, neocolonialist territory, or a postcolonial nation. Many Caribbean and Caribbean-America authors have taken the leap to regain and teach the world of their cultural identity. Two well-known authors, Jamaica Kincaid and Anthony Winkler, are of the many Caribbean authors that voice the continual effects of colonialism in their novels. Jamaica Kincaid’s novel is surprisingly short to go head on with issues such as western societal influence/oppression, colonialism, and capitalism. Jamaica Kincaid’s short, blunt, and sarcastic text along with Anthony Winkler’s novel, The Duppy, which is on a lighter note and far …show more content…

Kincaid being the narrating voice throughout the text examines the mockery of tourists who visit Antigua, anger towards European tourists especially, and anger towards the Antiguans. The narratives tone Kincaid uses is mutually antagonistic, creating a fictional identity of Antigua that is both preserved and debunked. An article looking at Jamaica Kincaid and her novels said, “A Small Place is both a call to arms and a cry of frustration that aims to strip Antigua of its glamorous taint of tourism, thereby exposing the island’s crumbling infrastructure, unmasking neocolonial facades and allowing for the rebuilding of a nation” (McLeod, “Constructing a Nation: Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small

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