Antigua

In the 2004 novel Small Island, Andrea Levy exposes the educational curriculum of colonial territories in the pursuit of revealing Britain’s endeavors to maintain a position of global authority. Britain governs the education system throughout the empire, however, the academic content that educators teach is contingent upon the geographical location of the academic institution. The distinctive intellectual experiences that the Jamaican and English students receive reinstates the hegemony that permits

Gentle waves, lush greenery, and sun-soaked beaches, Antigua embodies your ideal holiday destination. But Jamaica Kincaid turns your paradise upside down in her new memoir A Small Place. Using her pen as a sword, Kincaid slashes Antigua’s façade of perfection into shreds and presses the blade against the throats of tourism, colonialism and corruption. Many denounce Kincaid’s latest book as an over attack, her gaze too penetrating and intimidating. The tone of voice continuously shifts throughout

In Jamaica Kincaid essay “On Seeing England for the First Time” conveys the contradiction of a young Antiguan women’s bitterness in her perspectives of learning about England versus exactly experiencing England. Furthermore, Kincaid presents the speaker’s voice as consistently bitter from the beginning by using subjective and sarcastic diction and convincing syntax. Through the first and second paragraph of the essay the narrator is very informative and directive. For example, Kinkaid’s tone seems

In her 1990 novel, Jamaica Kincaid explores the implications of her sense of self and her difficulty adapting to her new situation. In the given excerpt, one sees Kincaid finds change difficult to cope with. In the past whenever Kincaid hoped for change, she imagined she would “like it very much” (line 10). Yet, in the present, after experiencing change, she “smiled with my mouth turned down” (line 11). Throughout the excerpt, the reader can see the stark tension between her sense of self and current

Throughout the reading “Upon Seeing England for the First Time”, Jamaica Kincaid describes how she first learned about England and described England as a “very special jewel” (Kincaid 3). She also describes how England influences her entire life from a child. As she describes events about her that occurred throughout her life, her view starts to shift and the liking of England starts turning toward hatred. Kincaid describes England as the everything in her life. Wherever she goes, what she wears

Jamaica Kincaid is able to distinct herself from most essays in “The Ugly Tourist” by using a paradoxically haphazard sentence structure, repetition of certain words, and the use of second person. When first reading this essay sentences seem unbalanced and unstructured; for example, many sentences begin with conjunctions and one sentence almost covers a whole page. Kincaid decides to use such a unique, almost haphazard sentence structure to separate herself and her writing style from other writers

Kincaid: Textual Analysis In Jamaica Kincaid’s novel [excerpt], an interesting character is presented to us; a character who has what she once longed for, but longs for what she once had. This internal conflict of a romanticized past clashing with a (what should be) new and improved lifestyle consumes the narrator’s mind. The narrator describes her first encounter with this new life with an almost cautious tone– she comments on how different her new way of life is (i.e. the fascination of the

Antigua is a small island that was discovered in 1493, by Christopher Columbus. The natives that lived there were made slaves by the British and the economy thrived on producing sugar. In 1834 the British abolished slavery giving Antigua its independence. The sugar industry was failing so the economy relied on tourism. A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid is about Antigua. Kincaid narrates her novel in second person, blaming the tourists for ruining the culture of Antigua. Kincaid explains that the British

Cathy Fink- after spending more time than I probably should have, I was able to track-down the original source of her money. (I didn’t see anything about this in Rick Jacob’s RE record). It turns out that Cathy is the granddaughter of Theodore Baumritter, the co-founder of what today is known as Ethan Allen Interiors-the well-known furniture retailer. The Baumritter Corporation was established in 1932, later changing its name to Ethan Allen Inc. in 1969. In 1980, Interco Inc. bought the company

In the passage, Jamaica Kincaid dramatizes the opposing forces of the desire for stability and the desire to grow as a human. The passage encapsulates Kincaid’s move to a new city up North and all the unexpected changes she discovers. By the end of the excerpt, she clearly delineates that she’s homesick and wants to return to her old, rural lifestyle because she “didn’t want to take in anything else.” This surface need of returning home and regaining stability in her life clashes with her subconscious