Jamaica Kincaid’s short and sharp essay, “The Tourist”, uses powerful and accusatory language to make a point about tourists from privileged continents visiting the global south. Pointedly addressing the tourist and contrasting the tourist to the ‘native’, Kincaid writes, “Every native would like to find a way out, every native would like a rest, every native would like a tour. But some natives — most natives in the world cannot go anywhere. They are too poor. They are too poor to go anywhere. They are too poor to escape the reality of their lives and they are too poor to live properly where they live, which is the very place that you, the tourist, want to go. So when the native sees you, the tourist, they envy you, they envy your ability to leave your own banality and boredom, they envy your ability to turn their banality and boredom into a source of pleasure for yourself.” (p. 434)
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