Jamaica Kincaid: A Small Place
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- Materiaali: Nidottu
- Kustantaja: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780374527075
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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.