Antigua

while visiting Antigua for the first time. By portraying the reader as the tourist through second-person narrative, Kincaid criticizes the ignorance of Eurocentric assumptions, as well as the total superficiality of Western tourism. Ultimately, this technique allows her to capture her disdain for Eurocentrism, alienating the reader from Antiguan culture. In the first sentence of the essay, Kincaid promptly employs second-person narrative by addressing the reader, “If you go to Antigua as a tourist

of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically” (Oxford Dictionary).This expedition spread European influence worldwide, in places such as China, Lebanon, India, and Antigua. European influence is still prevalent today through the crossing of racial lines and shifting of cultures towards a more ‘civilized’ way of living. Colonialism is still prevalent today, in the form of postcolonialism. Postcolonialism can be defined

Although she goes by Jamaica Kincaid, her name is actually Elaine Potter Richardson. She was born on May 25, 1949 at St. John’s hospital in Antigua. “…Caribbean American writer whose essays, stories, and novels are evocative portrayals of family relationships and her native Antigua” (Encyclopaedia Britannica). The article also says that Kincaid left Antigua when she was 16 and traveled to New York City, where she later settled down. Her first job was working as an au pair (“a domestic assistant from

Place is an expression of her inner feelings on the transformation her hometown, Antigua, and the everlasting postcolonial impact that occurs. Kincaid reacts to the feelings she had as a young girl and compares that mindset to the opinions she holds today as an adult. Kincaid’s piece evaluates the foreignness, race, and power that consumes Antigua. While she descriptively explains the circumstances she faced in Antigua, Kincaid incorporates historical background which provides logical support to her

representation of a hypothetical story outlining the adventures of a tourist visiting Antigua which is the hometown of the author. Kincaid in her writing tries to place the reader in the shoes of the tourist telling more of what the tourist would see through his or her travels on the island, Antigua. In this context, Kincaid attempts to paint picturesque scenery of according to the tourist’s view of the Antigua Island. On the other hand, she as well stains the images therein with some critical details

A Brothers Role In Society and In His Sister’s Life No one wants to talk about the illness, HIV, in Antigua, where almost everyone who contracts the disease does not survive. In society, talking about death from AIDS occurs rarely, yet bringing attention to the topic will be helpful. The commonality of this disease in the culture makes it almost impossible to avoid its effects. Despite the vast spread of the disease, any person who has contracted the disease will not be able to live a normal life

In Jamaica Kincaid’s essay, “A Small Place”, she is acknowledges how the Antiguans hurts themselves, as they fail to see the pathetic irony that exists within their country. According to Kincaid, the Antiguans see slavery as a time in which a bunch of ships dropped off slaves, the ancestors of the Antiguans, to work under brutal conditions for many years. Then, as though it were magic, all of a sudden the day of “emancipation” arrives, in the eyes of the ignorant Antiguans, and all the slaves are

rhetorical questions is when Kincaid says “Antigua is a small place. Antigua is a very small place. In Antigua, not only is the event turned into every day, but the everyday is turned into an event”. In the quote, the phrase that is being repeated is “Antigua is a small place”. In this quote, Kincaid is trying to emphasize the fact that Antigua is a small place compared to the rest of the world. By saying small place, Kincaid was not only trying to convey how small Antigua is based on its land but as well

Small Place” by Jamaica Kincaid, Kincaid explicitly describes the effects and consequences that imperialism had on Antigua, while implicitly condemning imperialism for the effects and consequences indigenous people endured through allegory. Examining the results of imperialism in a cultural aspect provides a deeper connection for the audience to fathom the struggle people of Antigua experienced. Kincaid illustrates herself as the main protagonist who directly speaks to the audience as if they are

a native of somewhere’(Kincaid,18). She beautifully describes Antigua and describes it as a place where the sky and sea meet to exaggerate the island’s surrealism. It shows that attachment place. Her style makes me recall my childhood and teenage experiences of living in Fort Payne that helped shape my identity. Kincaid’s style of writing establishes an intriguing reflection journey for the reader to undergo. The surrealism of Antigua remains as the same as it was back before Kincaid relocated elsewhere