Actually this book is required for my literature course at Chaing Mai University. The lecture is made by Dr. Chalathip Wasuwat.
At the very beginning, the conflict of the tourists and the indegeneous started with the greenflied down below the aircraft.
The indegeneous need rain but the tourists don’t. Most people are still not realize they are the victim of colonization. For instance, many former british colony’s coountry still use the colonial law that is not practical for time and culture at all. Most of the colonized just want to be like the person who rule them..........
However, Kincaid does not think like that... Her book is another form of women’s resistance.
We call this kind of feminism as a feminism with the small " f" as the theory of the white feminism can not help indegeneous women. The length of book is only 81 pages.
Jamaica Kincaid, a caribbian writer has already slapped on all the West’s face by attacking from the marginal place to the center. This is what we call the deconstruction of the colonial discourse. That’s why the academia in West simply concludes her point as Xenophibia. Antigua, the setting of this story used to be spanish, French and british colony respectively.
She also remind us of the legacy of the colonial period and the continuality of oppression. She depicted as" in the island of 12 miles long and 9 mile wide, 12 minutes, 12 days, 12 months, 12 years is just the same".
This means nothing change in this small island. Another example, the name of the criminal was used to name the street just to make fun. Tourism is the new form of the colonization. Kinciad said Antiguan school can produce only the good servant. Tourism just turn her island to be a prison.Most striking part is that’’ Most native people can’t go anywhere’’
.... Like Franz Fanon’s warning, the elite of Antigua just stepped into the shoe of the former colonizer to confirm the continuity of local people’s oppression. ’’ No need for apologize’’ is what she has said to the West. She will not forgive and she will not forget. We can also learn from this book about ’’ Orientalism’, a western fantasy that the West has always tried to impose on us. By the way, she wrote this book with strong anger. She said she has to use the criminal’s language which is English because she, like her ancestor, has no tongue. Or we can just simply say that state of being ’’ rootlessness’’. For me, It’s OK that we use English but we don’t have to use the colonial english that we newly create. What I could is that I absolutely agree with kincaid that everybody should be free. Jamaica Kincaid is now living in the United states with her husband and her children.