Antigua

In Jamaica Kincaid's introductory paragraph she explores what her reality would be like as a tourist in her home country. As she describes this to the reader (who is the audience) she shows how terrible the tourist can be to the island and how different and unwanted the tourist often is. In this piece, the author expresses a critical tone towards tourists through the use of imagery, parallel sentence structure, and the connotation of her words. In the opening paragraph of this essay, the…

In Jamaica Kincaid’s 1990 novel, her writing created the story of a woman beginning a new phase of her life. The narrator struggles between her sense of self versus the new environment. “I was no longer in a tropical zone and I felt cold inside and out…” (lines 44-45) the narrator shows the obvious signs of fear to the unknown and a sense of homesickness magnifying her struggles to the reader. She was lost and unhappy in her new environment. She appears to be closed off and unwilling to take in…

Jamaica Kincaid, author of a small place, wrote this book examining the impact British colonialism in the post-colonial era had on Antigua. Kincaid offers a unique viewpoint as a local who was born there, using her individual examples to create an authentic dialogue. Yet Kincaid chose to write the novel in second person employing the perspective of a tourist, to show how tourist can appreciate the beauty of the island but be completely ignorant to their social and political conditions that the…

Serissa Sanchez ENGL 212-043 Dr. Hyo Kim 08 December 2016 "Girl" Jamaica Kincaid was born in 1949 in Antigua. She was born into poverty like most blacks in the Caribbean. She was also born during a time where women did not have many rights, like most of the world. In Kincaid's story "Girl", which is considered as guidelines that a mother would give her daughter on the rights and rules of becoming a woman. This story is more than instructions for a young girl, it shows a deeper seeded issue on…

Jamaica Kincaid’s “Girl” details sentiments of a mother advising her daughter how to become an Antiguan woman. It has no traditional plot, character descriptions, setting, or action. Instead, it only has two voices. From the story, the author strives to demonstrate the issues inherent in mother-daughter relationships, adolescent sexuality, contradiction of female roles, the legacy of colonialism, and life under patriarchy. All these are shown in the short piece, hence illustrating the mastery…

ASSIGNMENT 1: INVESTMENT IN ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA SUBMITTED TO: PROF. NAKUL SINGH CHAUHAN ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA Antigua and Barbuda is a twin-island country in the Americas, lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of two major inhabited islands, Antigua and Barbuda, and a number of smaller islands (including Great Bird, Green, Guinea, Long, Maiden and York Islands and further south, the island of Redonda). The permanent…

Jamaica Kincaid expresses in her article Girl, by using her mother’s voice. She also separates her mother's demanding commands from her annoyed feelings toward her mother. The author's mother is giving her advice to help prepare her daughter for her future of taking care of her family and owning her own house one day. Kincaid explains that her mother makes sure that she knows how to do her household chores, and explains to her how to make catfish and herbal medicines. Her mother is suggesting…

Mary Seacole, the yellow woman of Jamaica, was born in Jamaica in 1805. Mary’s father was British Army officer and mother known as a healer. At the time many Jamaican’s were still enslaved, however Mary’s mother had been freed and was able to work. Observing her mother’s work, Mary learned her skills and use of herbal remedies. Mary was educated in the home of a patroness who she lived with from 1821 to 1825. When are patroness became ill, Mary returned home from England to help care for her.…

Moreover, there is an orientalist paradigm each tourist carries and the narrator exposes this through how the tourist feels to be in Antigua, where the tourist feels ‘blessed’ and ‘free’ (Kincaid, 5). The feelings described are tied with an ironic tone that arriving in a place riddled with dilapidation from neglect should evoke these feelings, and these feeling are actually an expression of valorizing poverty and exoticizing the natural environment. The road is described as ‘in much need of…

Antigua was built on the backs of African slaves that were imported to work on sugar plantations during colonial times. Soon after, it developed into a refuge for pirates and later, after reaching independence from the British in 1981, became a haven for…