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A Small Place is a work of creative nonfiction published in 1988 by Jamaica Kincaid. A book-length essay drawing on Kincaid's experiences growing up in Antigua , it can be read as an indictment of the Antiguan government, the tourist industry and Antigua's British colonial legacy, which includes slavery.
Colonial Place is a residential neighborhood in Norfolk, Virginia. It is a peninsula bordered by 38th Street on the south, and surrounded on three sides by the Lafayette River . It is a relatively racially mixed area that includes mostly single family homes and a few apartment buildings.
[34] [35] The idea of the 'other', under colonialist theory, is represented in this book with the struggle to express their experiences in the language of their oppressors and as a result, have had to create a language of their own. Post-colonial feminism is a post-colonial study that understands women to have been "othered" [9] who have been ...
Young's work has been described as being 'at least partially instrumental in the radicalisation of postcolonialism'. [2] His first book, White Mythologies: Writing History and the West (1990) [7] argues that Marxist philosophies of history had claimed to be world histories but had really only ever been histories of the West, seen from a Eurocentric—even if anti-capitalist—perspective.
The book is regarded by some as the forerunner of the modern mystery novel and the suspense novel. T. S. Eliot called it "the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels in a genre invented by Collins and not by Poe," [6] and Dorothy L. Sayers praised it as "probably the very finest detective story ever written". [7] G. K.
Deborah, Lady Moody (born Deborah Dunch) (1586– circa 1659) is notable as the founder of Gravesend, Brooklyn, and is the only woman known to have started a village in colonial America. She was the first known female landowner in the New World . [ 1 ]
Gottlieb Mittelberger (1714 – 1758) was a German author, schoolmaster, organist, and Lutheran pastor. [1] [2] He was best known for his work Journey to Pennsylvania (1756).). Mittelberger's travelogue provides a firsthand historic account of the misery and exploitation of German immigrants during the US colonial pe