ENGL 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Media Studies, Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place
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Jamaica kincaid, a small place: engl 111 002l in/human natures. Dealing with issues of race, ideas about slavery, white privilege, capitalism and inequality. Let school at 16; moved to new york as au pair at 17. Adopted pen name as columnist for ne yorker, paris review, village voice, and other journals. Writes short icion, essays and novels: much of it loosely autobiographical and all of it highly criical of colonialism. 9 x 12 miles in the leeward islands of the caribbean(west indies) Tourism replaced sugar industry, most economic infrastructure based on tourism: history of anigua unil today has been about creaing and obtaining wealth for white. What do we see when we arrive and live in a place like anigua: duplicity between: What people feel and see in that locaion. Invesigates the tensions and contradicions in thought made possible and enabled by the colonial exploits of europe in the world.
