Review #4
A Small Place
Chris Wilcox
“Do I look out of place? Are those people disgusted at me? Am I unwanted here?” These are questions very few people ask themselves every day and even less so when it comes to being a tourist. Yet this is something that is a common theme within [...]
Tasha Rennie
A Small Place Review
In Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place, the author takes her reader on an unexpected and thought-provoking journey to the place where she grew up. Antigua is a small island in the Caribbean, formerly of British rule, that is now a popular tourist destination. The book is split into four untitled sections. [...]
Jamaica Kincaid, a native Antiguan, acts as a reader’s tour guide through the picturesque sights and fascinating history of “A Small Place”, Antigua. Kincaid is a very passionate tour guide, who is an enormous wealth of information on Antiguan past, both as a colony of the British Empire and after its independence as a post-colonial [...]
A Small Place, written by Jamaica Kincaid, is a thought provoking story examining the effects of colonialism and the subsequent tourism on her home island of Antigua. By manipulating a typical travel memoir, Kincaid takes a different angle on the tourist genre and uses this aspect to push her own opinion of the true effects [...]
Ariel Young
A Small Place is not for casual reading. The book can be broken down into four parts. The first part listing out activities one might experience as a tourist while pointing out all the things that one will not think of.
A Small Place, by Jamaica Kincaid, is about her view of her birth place and home until she moved at the age of seventeen. The tiny island of Antigua, in the West Indies, was her birthplace and her home until she immigrated to New York at 17. She later worked for The New [...]
