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Book · 1988 · Nonfiction

A Small Place

Jamaica Kincaid
Publisher not found · 96 pages
★ 6.2 editorial score

You arrive in Antigua as a tourist and Kincaid tells you what you look like to the people who live there, then turns on the empire and the government that wrecked the island.

Genre
EssaysAnti-colonial literatureCultural criticismPost-colonial literature
Medium
Essays
Subject
TourismColonialismDeclineLoss
Setting
Antigua
Time
1988

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