A Small Place - BokDraken

96 sidor

På English

Publicerades 27 april 2000 av Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

ISBN:: 978-0-374-52707-5
OCLC-nummer:: 43962288

A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John

"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ."

So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up. Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our …

A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of Annie John

"If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a Prime Minister would want an airport named after him--why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen . . ."

So begins Jamaica Kincaid's expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up. Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies.

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Furious, but clever takedown of both colonialism and slave trade (and the way it's followed on through tourism, offshore banking...) and the corruption that inevitably followed in its footsteps after that was the only law anyone knew. Once you stop being a master, once you throw off the yoke of lordship, you're no longer trash, you're just a human with all it entails. That applies to slaves, too. Once they're free, they're no longer noble and elevated; they're just people.

Ämnen

Kincaid, Jamaica -- Homes and haunts -- Antigua.
Novelists, Antiguan and Barbudan -- Biography.
Antigua -- Description and travel.
Antigua -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.