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A Small Place Paperback – 28 March 2018

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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...

So begins Jamaica Kincaid's powerful portrait of the damaged paradise that was her childhood home. The island of Antigua is a magical place of breathtaking beauty - with cloudless skies, dazzling blue waters, and majestic sunsets. But it is also a place of dramatic contrasts. What one doesn't see while visiting this ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies is the sweeping corruption, the dilapidated schools and hospitals and homes, and the shameful legacy of its colonial past.
In A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid candidly appraises where she grew up, and makes palpable the impact of European colonisation and tourism.
The book is a missive to the traveller, whether American or European, who wants to escape the banality and corruption of some large place, Kincaid, eloquent and resolute, reminds us that the Antiguan people, formerly British subjects, are unable to escape the same drawbacks of their own tiny realm - that behind the benevolent Caribbean scenery are human lives, always complex and often fraught with injustice.

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Jamaica Kincaid was born in St John's, Antigua. She is an award-winning writer whose books include At the Bottom of the River, Annie John, Lucy, The Autobiography of My Mother, My Brother, My Favourite Plant, and My Garden (Book). From 1976-1996 she was a staff writer for The New Yorker. She lives with her family in Vermont.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Daunt Books
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 28 March 2018
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 100 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1911547097
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1911547099
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 134 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.3 x 1.1 x 19.8 cm

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Jamaica Kincaid's works include, Mr Potter, The Autobiography of My Mother, and My Brother, a memoir. She lives in Bennington, Vermont.

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Anicka
A Small place
Reviewed in France on 30 April 2024
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Such a fantastic book, I loved every part of it.
Would definitely recommend. It also highlights how important it is to be literate, because education is the true key to emancipation.

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Maxim Bagnell
its a book
Reviewed in Canada on 5 January 2025
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good book. the text is very readable

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The Brixtonian
Spot On ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 July 2012
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This book didn't stop me from visiting Antigua at all, in fact, Jamaica Kincaid's observations in 'A Small Place' were spot on.

When I visited the island before I read her book, I always had my 'tourist hat on', and was oblivious to
the struggles of the indigenous population; the corruption that still haunts their politicians; and the failed
legacies that the British had left behind some time ago.

It was only after I had read her book, that everything she had written, fell into place when I went back to visit again.

The majority of cars were still in a much better state than the homes where people lived, and many of the islanders
that I spoke to were always complaining about the influx of the Guyanese & the Syrians who were hindering their own
job prospects, also, the politicians were still 'ducking & diving' to avoid the smears of corruption; and not forgetting
the influence of the long departed British is still much in evidence to this day (you only have to look at the
decaying statues & monuments, and the over reliance on a judicial system that still prolongs many a murder
trial on this island).

An evocative read, but a very accurate one ...

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Vivek Tejuja
Short, and yet such a powerful, intense, and engaging read.
Reviewed in India on 1 January 2020
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So, this is my first Kincaid read, and all thanks to the 2020 Reading Women Challenge. Their first prompt is an author from Caribbean or India. Since I’ve read a lot of women from India, I thought let’s give the Caribbean a shot and started with A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid – a rather short, but extremely powerful and engaging book about colonialism and its effects in Antigua. There were so many things I wasn’t aware about Antigua till I read A Small Place, and like I said I was only too happy to read something out of my comfort zone and thereby discover the writing of an author I had intended to read for a while.

A Small Place is a memoir, it is also a history of Antigua in a way, it is also an essay of anger against the people who colonised Antigua, it is also a voice of great empathy that Kincaid has for her country and people. The book begins with an attack on tourists who visit Antigua – what they expect and choose to see versus what the place is.

A Small Place is a short book – but extremely powerful and angry. Kincaid writes about home – about what it meant to her, and what has become of it. Of how the English ruled them, and how their independence has only worsened the situation because of corruption and bureaucracy. Jamaica Kincaid speaks candidly – almost to the point of being brutal – there are no holds barred. The prose comes from an extremely personal space and therefore the writing shines the way it does.

For instance, when she speaks of lack of clean water in the country or even about the beloved old library that was destroyed in an earthquake and how nothing was done to build the new one. And now that there is a new one that has been built (way after the book was published), but there is still doubt if it is open to public or not.

Kincaid’s book is large – very large not only in its scope but also in what it has to say – and how she manages to say it in all in less than hundred pages is nothing short of a feat. That explains the writer she is – succinct, bare-boned, and yet so deeply emotional that every emotion is reflected on paper, and in turn is felt by the reader.

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lidia coronado
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Reviewed in Spain on 4 May 2021
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hermosa prosa de las cosas sencillas. pocas veces me releo un libro. este seguro que lo volveré a leer.

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