A Small Place

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A brilliant have a look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua–by the writer of Annie John

“If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you’ll see. If you come by aeroplane, you’ll land on the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the Prime Minister of Antigua. You will be one of these 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’re a tourist and you’ve got not yet seen . . .”

So begins Jamaica Kincaid’s expansive essay, which shows us what we have now 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 assist but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies.

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