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Place begins with Jamaica Kincaid placing herself in a unique position able to understand the tourist and the Antiguan and despise both while identifying with neither” (895). Another critic, Suzanne Gauch, adds to this claim by asserting that “A Small Place disappoints…readers when it undermines the authority of its own narrator by suggesting that she is hardly representative of average Antiguans” (912). In her narrative A Small Place, Kincaid often attacks and criticizes the average tourist with what

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

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 were cruel to the Antiguan people but she forgives them for it. Kincaid also talked about how the Government is currently corrupt and how beautiful Antigua’s land is. Kincaids novel is broken up into four parts that address all of these issues in Antigua.The way A Small Place

The history of the AGHS began in 1886, when an English couple- a Mr. and Mrs. Williams, came to Antigua, because of Mr. William's failing health. Mrs. Williams became the school's first headmistress. After her husband died, she sent for her sister and together they shared the responsibility of running the school. At this time the school had boarding facilities for local students, as well as students from neighbouring Caribbean islands such as St. Kitts, Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica and Grenada.

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 freed. As Kincaid notes, the Antiguans speak of emancipation

In her short story “Girl,” a mother is instructing her daughter on how to live a honest life. In the story, food and clothes are motifs that reveal how to be a respectable woman in Antiguan society. First of all, food is used to show how to be an upright Antiguan woman. Food is established as a staple of an Antiguan woman’s life. She is responsible for the preparation and production of meals. The mother repeatedly stresses food throughout her sermon to support

exercised by the colonizers created an inherently negative platform on which the modern political and economic systems of the Caribbean now stand. The corruption of the Antiguan government is introduced by Jamaica Kincaid in her novel, A Small Place. Throughout the novel, Kincaid takes issue with the numerous instances in which Antiguans are still treated as second-rate citizens within their own land due to political and economic corruption. It is clear that the skeletons of these organizations remain

independence from the British. A Small Place reveals that post-colonial Antigua is still pinned by a form of slavery through the nation's poor economy, government corruption, and the impoverished Antiguans. The poor economy and corrupt government are hand in hand to help create the impoverished Antiguans. The corrupt government of Antigua restricts their citizens ability to buy specific goods, like cars, in order to benefit the people working in the government, “banks are encouraged by the government

Mother In Jamaica Kincaid’s novel The Autobiography of My Mother, the protagonist examines the effects of European colonization on Antiguan inhabitants. Characters exhibit traits of a defeated population; they attempt to overcome their position of vanquish by obtaining power over the minimal recourses available. The protagonist, Xuela, differs from the rest of the Antiguans through her ability to rely on individuality as a resource of security. Xuela proclaims freedom from the inheritance of a conquered

one another. In her aggressive and expository essay, Kincaid successfully demonstrates through the use of several examples, that knowledge, which is a necessary precursor to power, is severely lacking in Antigua, which in turn limits the power Antiguans hold over their own society. Kincaid begins by pointing out to