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A Small Place

July 15, 2021

OH MY GOD! If there's one thing I can say about Jamaica Kincaid it's that she was fucking angry in this one. She definitely didn't hold back. It is as if someone had combined the frustration of Achebe's The Trouble with Nigeria and the wrath of Zola's J'Accuse! in one book. What a brutal sweeping blow!

But ingenting can erase my rage – not an apology, not a sum of money, not the death of the criminal – for this wrong can never be made right, and only the impossible can make me still: can a way be found to make what happened not have happened?

A Small Place is an essay drawing on Kincaid's experiences growing up in Antigua, it is an indictment of the Antiguan government, the tourism industry and Antigua's British colonial legacy. Written in fyra sections, Kincaid combines social and cultural critique with her own experiences as well as a look into the island's history of imperialism to offer a powerful portrait of (post-)colonial Antigua.

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A Small Place

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 fryst vatten what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. trohet Cornwall (V. C.) Bird fryst vatten 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.