vacation” (Kincaid 10). In A Small Place‚ Jamaica Kincaid wrote about the repercussions of British rule in her country‚ Antigua. Antigua was controlled by the British until 1981 when they gained their independence. Due to Jamaica Kincaid’s experience in Antigua during its period of being under British colonial rule‚ she was able to explain Antigua and the effects of colonialism from the perspective of an Antiguan. When viewed through the Biographical‚ Postcolonial‚ and New Criticism Lenses‚ Jamaica Kincaid’s
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author‚ Jamaica Kincaid’s use of the character of Annie John to reflect a young girl’s development in the Caribbean society in the late 1950’s. Kincaid’s self reliance provides a basic foundation for the character of Annie John portrayed as Kincaid and her struggle to find individuality in a male privileged century. Annie seeks capability to separate from her mother; the male privileges occurring in her home and community of Antigua; and the progressions in herself. Annie‚ like Kincaid is living
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The beginning of A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid opens in second-person and talks about the tourism in a post-independent Antigua‚ in the British West Indies. Written in the 1980’s the book is a natives view on how Antigua operates today‚ and how it differs from the past. The opening section keenly addresses the reader as "you" and describes how beautiful Antigua used to be. She addresses topics in the first section such as the natives of the island‚ and how much you will never actually truly
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the Americans and immigrants. In their novels‚ The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid and Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid‚ both Hamid and Kincaid utilize American immigrants’ outsider view to demonstrate how Americans have an attitude of privilege that alienates non-Americans. Whereas Hamid uses Changez‚ an upper middle class Pakistani man‚ to focus on how privilege contributes to arrogance‚ Kincaid uses Lucy‚
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In the novel Lucy by Jamaica Kincaid‚ I identified concepts that are still being used in modern society. For instance‚ when she is discussing about her father’s death and the roles her mother would take on around the house to help. It is interesting that today we still follow the ideals of women and their role in a marriage as if it was the 1990’s‚ although we have slowly been trying to break the chain there has not been progress. However‚ I found the way she handled the death of her father and the
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The book A Small Place written by Jamaica Kincaid is recognized by a number of scholars highlighting how the material exposes readers to the past and present culture of the narrator’s native country Antigua‚ corruption in the Antiguan government‚ English colonialism and etc. However‚ one should take notice that Kincaid speaking in the second person in different sessions of the book represents and creates a connection between the tourist and the reader. The term "you" refers to the tourist/travelers
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Jamaica Kincaid‚ born Elaine Cynthia Potter‚ has clearly never been content with accepting the world as presented to her. She changed her name‚ as she felt it wasn’t representative of her origins or the history of her bloodline. Moreover‚ her name wasn’t the only name she had a problem with; in her passage‚”In History‚” she undertakes the enormous task of demolishing and reestablishing our understanding of the names we encounter on a daily basis. Through intentionally withholding information and
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Antigua is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere‚ with a GDP per capita of $13‚731 and a growth rate of -7.2%. Many books have been written to address this problem‚ and one of the most notable ones is A Small Place‚ written by Jamaica Kincaid. By examining the book through the new criticism‚ psychological‚ and marxist lens‚ readers are able to fully understand her fearless writing style that helps expose many of the problems that have arisen from white colonialism. Analyzing Kincaid’s
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story Girl by Jamaica Kincaid is a about a mother giving beneficial life structure about appropriate essential for daily living to her daughter. The mother is trying to influence her daughter to be a presentable woman by sharing values and behaviour from one generation to another in a significance way to shape her and be able to live a proper life . The mother gives advice to her daughter to teach her the principals on how to properly run a household and live respectably. The story Girl ‚Jamaica Kincaid
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Alice delphino ENG1101 Mrs. Harris 18 August 2009 In Jamaica Kincaid’s short story “Girl‚” the mother is very disapproving of her daughter’s attitude towards life. She wants to educate her daughter about developing into a respectable woman‚ domesticating herself and proper etiquette in the presence of men. The relationship between mother and daughter depicts a traditional Caribbean “dictatorship” in which the mother shows her love in a controlling manner and the daughter’s only option is to
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