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#bookspin is an #antiguaandbarbuda book for #readingtheamericas2023 and #doublespin is a #quietya book for #booked2023. These are my initial ideas - they may change! @TheAromaofBooks

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A Small Place | Jamaica Kincaid

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#ReadingTheAmericas2023 #AntiguaAndBarbuda 🇦🇬 #BannedBooks
This was uncomfortable reading for an English person, and the more necessary for being so. Kincaid sketches out one chapter in the obscured history of misery called The British Empire. She states that all masters are human rubbish, that when they throw off the yoke of being masters they cease being human rubbish & become human beings. The degree to which Britons (and other colonisers) ⬇️

Bookwomble ... have thrown off the attitudes of the master in their relations with other nationalities is, then, one measure of the degree to which they can claim to be a human being.
Kincaid also looks at the post-colonial legacy of political corruption in Antigua and Barbuda, which explains why in that country this was a #BannedBooks . Written in 1985, I wonder to what degree things have changed. 5⭐
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Librarybelle Excellent review! This sounds like a must read 2y

BarbaraBB Sounds fabulous 2y

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Bookwomble @Librarybelle It's definitely a must-read for exactly those people least likely to read it! I can think of a couple of extended-family members who I'd love to have sit down with it 🧐😁 It's small at 81 pages, but fierce. 2y

Bookwomble @BarbaraBB It's powerful stuff! 2y

The_Book_Ninja The quote you picked was sharp and profound. I shared it with my family. 2y

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