false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170711305m/69711.jpg 69711 8 <div>A brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua--by the author of <i>Annie John</i><br><br><i>"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 . . ."</i><br><br>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.<br><br>Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, <i>A Small Place</i> cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies.<br></div> 909898 1988 A Small Place total:857|5:261|4:309|3:214|2:60|1:13| 857 3316 1102 116 4 2 false false Wed Feb 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 14:34:30 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 16:38:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 2 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 01 15:05:56 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 01 15:13:49 -0700 2007
In A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid uses her complex insider-outsider status within each of the three countries she was shaped by in her life—Britain, America, and her native Antigua—to argue that the reason islander...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Dec 11 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 14:05:48 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 11 14:13:55 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Sun Nov 04 11:58:33 -0800 2007 Sun Nov 04 12:13:06 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Nov 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 16:09:41 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 16:18:52 -0800 2009 The book starts off and you're thinking, "Ok, this isn't anything I don't know or don't feel guilty about all ready." It's not an annoyance, but it's not very compelling to read the white guilt you're probably already feeling having just like bee...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Apr 30 15:09:57 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 15:19:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Jan 17 16:49:07 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 17:04:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 20:08:11 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 14 20:13:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Feb 04 10:26:37 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 15:45:26 -0800 2009
"The thing you have always suspected about yourself the minute you become a tourist is true: A tourist is an ugly human being. You are not an ugly person all the time; you are not an ugly person ordinarily; you are not an ugly person day to day. From day to da...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 04 07:59:37 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 09:52:09 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Sat Oct 31 09:57:14 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 31 09:57:14 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 07:52:38 -0800 2009 Tue Nov 17 20:25:11 -0800 2009 A Small Place is an extended essay by Kincaid on her native Antigua, one which manages to be at once both scathing and insightful. Despite its brevity, Kincaid manages to take on such issues as Antigua's colonial past; the impact of tourism by mostly white, wealthy tourists on its present; and the d...more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Nov 16 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 14:31:28 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 14:35:11 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Mar 17 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Dec 27 09:50:57 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 27 09:53:10 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Aug 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 18 10:17:54 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 17 10:16:31 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 31 13:31:42 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 30 12:32:22 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Oct 10 20:23:23 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 10 20:23:27 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 17 20:13:03 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 16:13:45 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2002 Thu Jan 22 16:27:25 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 16:38:48 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Fri Jan 23 06:48:34 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 23 06:50:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=69711