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Enslavement Resistance Slave resistance began for many enslaved Africans before they reach the Americas. Karenga explained the many arrangements in which Africans resisted to enslavement, while in Africa, during the middle passage, and in the Americas. Employing the Karenga text one can evaluate the different resistances that transpired in Antigua as Cultural, Resistance, Day-to-Day Resistance, Abolitionism, Armed Resistance, Revolts, Ship Mutinies, and Afro-Native Alliance. One can conclude that

A Small Place Part 3 Rhetorical Analysis A Small Place, a novel written by Jamaica Kincaid, is a story relating to the small country of Antigua and its dilemmas from Jamaica Kincaid’s point of view. In this novel Kincaid is trying to inform her audience that Antigua is in a poor state due to British imperial, government corruption, and tourism. Kincaid exposes her audience to the effect of these very problems in Antigua by using persuasive visual language. In the third part of Jamaica Kincaid’s A

Antigua, her intended audience, and the childhood she experienced; specifically, the Postcolonial, Reader Response, and Biographical lenses. The Post-Colonial lens analyzes the effects of colonialism, so readers can better understand the challenges Antiguans face as a consequence of colonial times. Antigua is full of the ancestors of slaves, so the people living in Antigua post-emancipation did not receive the opportunity to develop their own

of young women in Antiguan society. In the poem, a girl is receiving a lecture on how to be a woman. She is not encouraged to be herself or to gain an education. In fact, the mother continuously refers to her as a slut, “the slut I know you are so bent on becoming“ (Kincaid 1146) The role of the Antiguan woman is that of homemaker. Berleant-Schiller suggests, “the domestic domain of women is sometimes implicitly regarded as inferior” (Berleant-Schiller 254). Women in Antiguan society are taught

designed to become a tourist attraction over the years, causing the author’s sense of Antigua to dissipate over time (pp.23). Kincaid’s perception of Antigua can be summed up by the unrepaired library, the past social and cultural interaction of the Antiguans (pp. 42 – 43). To the tourist, the ruin library is possibly just another damage structure; however, to the locals and Kincaid, it has meaning, a place, a locale, and more importantly, a sense of place. In the story, it references

doesn’t think there’s an original culture left. After this, she shortly talks about the education level of Antigua, and that it has been worsened over the years, so much that the youth don’t really know how to speak proper. Kincaid examines the way Antiguans encounter the progression of time, and associates this to their strangely withdrew perspective of the defilement of their

completely empty of grace. (Of course, I now see that good behaviour is the proper posture of the weak, of children)" (Kincaid 30). In A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid states that the Antiguans believed that the English were terrible because of their manners and behavior. She follows that the good behavior of the Antiguans is

cultural customs and most important to learn the rules of social behavior. Her mother's advice is not only intentionally told in order for her to become the proper antiguan woman she believes in raising, but is also told to criticize her actions and everyday doings. Her mother makes it very clear, in order to live a proper antiguan life, there are many rules that one must follow. With deeper interpretation of Kincaid’s work we come to the realization that her overall message suggests the idea that

Kincaid states that most Antiguans are servants and maids. The Hotel School training graduation is celebrated and broadcasted on Television. (Kincaid 55). Kincaid states this because the celebration of such a small feat entails the lack of education and the lack of diversity in jobs

A Small Place, by Jamaica Kincaid, tells the history of a small postcolonial island called Antigua, which is located in the Caribbean. In this nonfictional text, published in 1988, Kincaid examines the challenges that Antiguans were left to deal with after the English left and in her writing Kincaid reveals how European colonization left Antigua with injustice, corruption, and poverty. The book is sectioned off into four parts. The first part focuses on tourism, the second part studies the colonial