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... Through using different narrative perspectives, Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place reveals to the reader the destructive tools of colonialism and the profound impact they had on her native island, Antigua. These tools, history, culture, and language resulted in the destruction of the Antiguan identity and led to a master/slave system of government and civic life on the island. ...
In the case of Antigua the English tried to replace any traces of their past with the history of England. ... In A Small Place the library in Antigua becomes an important symbol. ... We can see how England’s influence on the natives created a new culture or identity. ... Jamaica Kincaid also mentions this in her book, “…no place could ever really be England, and nobody who did not look exactly like them would ever be English, so you can imagine the destruction of people and land that came from that” (Kincaid, 24). ... Through enforcing English as the country’s primary language continued to tear away at their original identity. ... In Antigua there was no realization of the wrong doing, the English didn’t leave because they recognized their actions as wrong. ... As indicated on the official site of the Antigua and Barbuda Department of Tourism website the islands economy struggled until the development of tourism. ...
In A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid uses an uncommon narrative perspective that places the reader (you) as a tourist coming to Antigua for a long awaited vacation. ... For in truth, the West is responsible for what has occurred, what is occurring in Antigua. ... She forces us to take ownership of the problems in Antigua.
Approximate Word count = 1618
Approximate Pages = 6.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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