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her Antiguan homeland; however, contrary to what King states in her essay, Kincaid belittlement of the Antiguans is a satirical effort to expose the racism of the primarily white tourists. According to King, Kincaid is uncertain in her place in Antigua. In her essay, she asks: “what is Kincaid’s point of view, Antiguan or tourist?” (894) She is neither an Antiguan, because she left at a young age and returned to find her home in shambles, nor a tourist because they are “incredibly unattractive
The Antigua and Barbuda islands are well renowned for their destination as one of the leading tourist resorts in the Caribbean. Tourism dominates Antigua and Barbuda’s economy accounting for more than half of the country’s GDP (CIA World Fact Book). When people vacation in this paradise they do not know the extensive history that is present on the island. Many Antiguans are involved in creating an atmosphere that conceals the painful history that existed in Antigua. In this paper I will focus on
A Small Place: Antigua’s Deprecating Dependency Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place explores the blissful ignorance that tourists possess as they visit Antigua without knowing its history which earns them an unfavorable reputation among the locals. The ugliness of tourism within the novel is characterized by the quick turnaround of tourists that only explore a surface level understanding of the island before leaving. Through the narrator’s abrupt but subtle use of interjections, such as noting the tourists’
Jamaica Kincaid was born Elaine Potter Richardson in 1949 in Antigua, in the British West Indies, but changed her name when she started to write because her family did not like her choice of profession. She arrived in New York at the age of seventeen years, taking a working as a nanny for a rich family, and met New Yorker columnist George S. TRow, which finally helped her to publish in the magazine. The New Yorker has published the short story Kincaid's "Girl" in 1978, the first part of its fiction
Jamaica Kincaid is the author of “A Small Place”, a book about her real-life homeland Antigua, a struggling island. This island is doing poorly for a variety of reasons, such as the corrupt government, the economy being in shambles, the infrastructure crumbling, lack of resources. Almost all the people in Antigua are poor, with the few exceptions being privileged by the government. A Broken Place The government depends on tourism for nearly all of Antigua’s revenue. But that tourism can hurt unintentionally
lacking in Antigua, which in turn limits the power Antiguans hold over their own society. Kincaid begins by pointing out to “you,” a tourist what is missing from Antigua in order to first make clear the reality that knowledge is not existent, valued, or accessible in Antigua. She illustrates “your” arrival, when she notes, “You are a tourist and you have not yet seen a school in Antigua, you have not yet seen the hospital in Antigua, you have not yet seen a public monument in Antigua.” But she
Jamaica Kincaid, born Elaine Cynthia Porter Richardson, grew up on the island of Antigua during an era of post-colonialism, surrounded by a colonial culture and the brutal history of her heritage. At the age of 17, her mother forced her to move to America so that she could work as a nurse to earn money that she could send home to her family. Instead of doing as her mother told her, she studied photography and writing during her time in America. Eventually, she took a job at The New Yorker, publishing
between the island of Antigua and Britain, which colonized the island and instructed the people to act more European. There are many similarities between the subservient way the daughter is instructed to act and the way that Britain changed Antigua’s identity through colonialism. Just as the mother controls the daughter, the relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed that is explored in Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” is a reflection on the ways in which colonialism affected Antigua. While the comparison
British are a powerful force who has already wiped out an entire town that rebelled. No one in Umofia wants a repetition of that situation. Okonkwo doesn't want to compromise his beliefs. He dies hopeless and aware of the future of his community. Antigua is in a state of disarray. The corruption left by the British rule is evident throughout the island. The exploitation of the land by the whites proves their lack of morality. The natives don't do anything to better their situation. They don't
Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place guides its readers through the small island of Antigua, the author’s native home. The narrative acts like a tour, with Kincaid writing in the second person perspective, thus placing the reader in the shoes of a tourist visiting Antigua. However, readers will quickly catch on to the highly sardonic and condemnatory tone that Kincaid uses; for example, “and so you needn’t let that slightly funny feeling you have from time to time about exploitation, oppression, domination
Antigua’s corrupt government, the passiveness of the Antiguan people, and the English who colonized Antigua. This work can be discusses as a polemic because of Kincaid’s simplistic diction, and very confrontational tone throughout the book. From the beginning, Kincaid introduces the tourist, whom she describes as a white middle-class man from either Europe, U.S., or Canada that is traveling to Antigua because he is bored with his life back home and also to pursue a sense of freedom and excitement
Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place is a work of creative non-fiction that does not fit squarely into one literary category. This makes the task of evaluating the works effectiveness more complex. To determine the books effectiveness, it is first necessary to establish a benchmark with which the book can be measured against. A Small Place combines elements of an autobiography with elements of a social critique and exists within the vast framework of travel literature. Measuring A Small Place against
alone taught. This reminds me of the point made in Jamaica Kincaid’s novel “A Small Place” in which she comments about getting a day off of school for Queen Victoria’s birthday. In the book Kincaid states that most of the people on the island of Antigua don’t even realize why they have been given a holiday. This type of confusion is typical in dealing with the relationship between colony and colonizer. It is however easy to sympathize with the colonizing count... ... middle of paper ... ...states
A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid presents the hypothetical story of a tourist visiting Antigua, the author’s hometown. Kincaid places the reader in the shoes of the tourist, and tells the tourist what he/she would see through his/her travels on the island. She paints a picturesque scene of the tourist’s view of Antigua, but stains the image with details of issues that most tourists overlook: the bad roads, the origin of the so-called native food, the inefficiency of the plumbing systems in resorts
enthralling from many different aspects, including creative, cultural, and sentimental. Her candid sincerity and openness along with comical play on words makes it a superb written account of an intimate expedition. I also accompanied a girl who grew up in Antigua, Jamaica Kincaid, on a poignant ride of the life and AIDS-related passing of her youngest sibling. During this voyage Kincaid too explores topics such as family, race, and migration. Reading both memoirs made me realize the importance of finding and
year of 1978 and was known to be the first piece of fiction that Kincaid had published (Jamaica Kincaid, 1145). Kincaid was born on May 25, 1949 in St. John’s, Antigua. She was an important writer of the twentieth/ twenty-first century whose essays, stories and novels were all related to her family relationships and to her home country, Antigua (Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Jamaica Kincaid”). Her stories are known to cover the hard-hitting subjects of racism, class, gender, and explains how these topics
Antigua Antigua is the larger of the two Caribbean islands of Antigua and Barbuda. If you are going to Antigua, you can go by boat or take a flight. The VC Bird International Airport is located in the northern part of the island and is four miles away from the capital St Johns. Airlines such as US Air, American Airlines, Continental Airlines and Air Canada fly directly to the airport. On getting to the airport and clearing customs, you can take a taxi or rent a car to take you to your hotel. In 1784
were not welcome, in places they should not have been” (1). In this quote, Kincaid exaggerates the size of England’s expansion; it had not colonized the whole world, as the quote implies. This hyperbolic statement illustrates that Kincaid’s world is Antigua, so to her, England has taken over her whole world. Although not literally all over the world, this hyperbole also helps show that England has colonized many places, and “they were not welcome” in any of them. Kincaid wants the audience to understand
Tourism is Still Oppression in A Small Place In part fictional and part autobiographical novel “A Small Place” published in 1988, Jamaica Kincaid offers a commentary on how the tenets of white superiority and ignorance seem to emerge naturally from white tourists. She establishes this by using the nameless “you” depicted in the story to elucidate the thoughts they have when visiting such formerly colonized islands. This inner mentality of the white tourists reveals how tourism is still a form of