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Laddar... A Small Place: 2 (utgåvan 1989)av Jamaica Kincaid
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Necessary book. Please read it. If you’re offended by this book, you are a part of the problem. ( ) This author is very angry, and I felt chastised! First among various reasons for being a tourist! It should be required reading for anyone vacationing in the Caribbean, where the tourists have plenty and the locals do not. Take for instance, water. Tourists can swim in it, and then bathe in it, and drink as much as they like. But many islands have no water source so the locals have to conserve every last drop. From there, the author delves into how the residents of Antigua came to live there—slave ships, and the dire faults in the English empire. It’s a tongue-lashing for sure. Honest and Raw. I read this for a Postcolonial literature class at CU Boulder. While I know a lot of folks can't get past the bitter, I think the point is that most of us are reading this from the comfort of privilege, especially those of us privileged enough to be reading it in a university. I love the message . We can't "get over" our past. We can't turn away from our history. But we can meet each other in the middle, acknowledge our past and embrace our history - which might help all of us start acting a little more human. Two thumbs up. I‘m struggling to review this precisely. It reads like a stream of consciousness diatribe to the point I had trouble finding cohesion sometimes as I read. Nonetheless, it has a lot to say about how overwhelming and multi-sided corruption can be and the difficulties of untangling it. It dealt also with the problems of tourism and outside influence on a small nation. I can‘t say I enjoyed reading it, but it‘s a pick for the emotional force it has. I'm not sure I've ever come across a voice so forthright and beautiful at the same time. Jamaica Kincaid manages to reveal the underbelly of colonization (specifically in regard to her birthplace Antigua) while writing with blurry metaphor (blurry in the sense that things seems like metaphors and also not metaphors), wry humor, and a telling of political history in an almost folk-style narrative like a parable, but in reference to specific people. She unflinchingly deals out critiques yet manages to convey a sadness at the same time: "And it is in that strange voice, then--the voice that suggests innocence, art, lunacy--that they say these things, pausing to take breath before this monument to rottenness, that monument to rottenness, as if they were tour guides; as if, having observed the event of tourism, they have absorbed it so completely that they have made the degradation and humiliation of their daily lives into their own tourist attraction." (69) In eighty short pages, Kincaid shares a truthful experience of a land, the likes of which few get to see or experience when caught up in the "unreal beauty" of a tourist destination. Kincaid describes beauty as a prison, and in so doing, changes our understanding of that which might deserve a deeper look beyond the blue of the ocean and the colors of the sky.
There are places worth revisiting not to relive joyful memories, but to allow for the catharsis that comes from exposing festering wounds so that cleansing, and perhaps healing, can begin. This is the kind of journey Jamaica Kincaid allows us to witness. In this essay, orginally published in 1988 and recently released in paperback, she takes us behind idyllic countrysides and sun-kissed beaches to examine the underbelly of life in Antigua, the tiny island in the West Indies where she grew up. It is a place she lovingly describes as "too beautiful." But Antigua also elicits bitter memories for our tour guide, who makes it clear she has an ax to grind in this short but powerful billyclub of a book. Uppmärksammade listor
Jamaica Kincaid föddes 1949 som Elaine Potter Richardson på den karibiska ön Antigua, som då fortfarande var en brittisk koloni. I tonåren skick- ades hon av sin mor till usa för att arbeta som au pair och det skulle dröja tjugo år innan hon åter besökte sin ö och sin familj, då som den världsberömda författaren Jamaica Kincaid. Efter sitt besök på Antigua skrev hon den lilla skriften En liten plats. Det är en rasande och anklagande text som riktar udden både mot de gamla kolonisatörerna och mot det som följt i deras fotspår: den västerländska turismen, offshorebankerna och de nya regeringarnas korruption. Med knivskarpa betraktelser och bitsk humor belyser hon de oförrätter den lilla platsen Antigua liksom så många andra platser i de gamla kolonialmakternas periferier fått utså. En liten plats gavs ut 1988 och är idag en modern klassiker, om möjligt mer relevant än när den skrevs. Boken är översatt av Madeleine Reinholdsson och innehåller en nyskriven introduktion av Stefan Jonsson, kritiker, författare och professor i etnicitet vid Linköpings universitet. [Elib] Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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