4.3
Biografier
From the award-winning author of Annie John comes a brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua.
“If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the prime minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a prime minister would want an airport named after him—why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen …”
So begins Jamaica Kincaid’s expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up.
Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies.
© 2017 Blackstone Publishing (Ljudbok): 9781504743389
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 24 januari 2017
4.3
Biografier
From the award-winning author of Annie John comes a brilliant look at colonialism and its effects in Antigua.
“If you go to Antigua as a tourist, this is what you will see. If you come by aeroplane, you will land at the V. C. Bird International Airport. Vere Cornwall (V. C.) Bird is the prime minister of Antigua. You may be the sort of tourist who would wonder why a prime minister would want an airport named after him—why not a school, why not a hospital, why not some great public monument. You are a tourist and you have not yet seen …”
So begins Jamaica Kincaid’s expansive essay, which shows us what we have not yet seen of the ten-by-twelve-mile island in the British West Indies where she grew up.
Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright by turns, in a Swiftian mode, A Small Place cannot help but amplify our vision of one small place and all that it signifies.
© 2017 Blackstone Publishing (Ljudbok): 9781504743389
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 24 januari 2017
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Marcus
17 okt. 2021
Brilliant. Painful. Thought provoking. A quite merciless look at the strangeness, beauty and wickedness of our global societies and of a history of colonialism and emancipation, through the lens of a small place, a small island surrounded by ocean.
Stefan J
16 mars 2023
En svidande kritik mot kolonialism och korruption! Man undrar om det blivit bättre sedan 1988?
Inan
23 apr. 2023
Just amazing…
Monica
20 mars 2024
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