Abstract
This essay sets out to demonstrate that Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place can be considered a “counter-travel” narrative insofar as it sets itself against the dominant western-centric form of the travelogue. By drawing on formalist theory, the essay clarifies the confusion surrounding the genre to which A Small Place belongs by arguing that Kincaid reconfigures the travelogue’s form through the articulation of a local perspective in order to decentre knowledge production about small places such as Antigua in the global economy. The essay also contends that by working within (and against) the genre of travel writing, Kincaid critiques the production of cultural difference underwriting travelogues. In doing so, Kincaid reveals that the production of cultural difference is itself a function of the uneven production of the globe under neoliberal capitalism.
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