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The Columbia History of the American NovelThey should stay within the boundaries of what is expected from them — stories about community, colonialism, local tradition. In her next work, A Small Place (1988), Kincaid, with the full talent of her sarcasm, launches a "telling like it is" story of "the ugly tourist" who eagerly and irresponsibly consumes the sun, sea, and sand of the Caribbean, "in harmony with nature and backward in that charming way." Kincaid has a remarkable and disarmingly lucid ability to reveal the most blinding truths, and to force accountability where it belongs, because as the narrator states, one "cannot forget the past, cannot forgive, and cannot forget." By evoking slavery and the painful reality that slaves could not hold their slave traders accountable for their inhuman actions, Kincaid draws lessons from that past for this present, such as the Antiguan neocolonial regime where "all the ministers in government go overseas for medical treatment. All the ministers have 'green cards' [United States Alien Residency]"; in Antigua there is no decent health care for the majority ...» |
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