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020 9781911547099|qpocket
041 eng
082 04 972.974|223/swe
084 He.04|2kssb/8
084 Nqchböz Antigua|2kssb/8
092 0 Roman|bengelska
100 1 Kincaid, Jamaica,|d1949-|4aut
245 12 A small place /|cJamaica Kincaid
250 Daunt Books edition
264 1 London :|bDaunt Books,|c2018
264 4 |c©1988
300 81 pages|c20 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
520 '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 when on holiday on 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
534 |cFarrar, Straus, Giroux, New York, NY, 1988|pOriginally
published:
600 14 Kincaid, Jamaica,|d1949-
648 7 1900-talet|2sao
650 0 Novelists, Antiguan and Barbudan|vBiography
650 7 Intellektuellt liv|2sao
650 7 Resor|2sao
650 7 Öar|2sao
651 0 Antigua|xDescription and travel
651 0 Antigua|xIntellectual life|y20th century
651 7 Antigua och Barbuda|zAntigua|2sao
