Resisting paradise : tourism, diaspora, and sexuality in Caribbean culture / Angelique V. Nixon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nixon, Angelique V., author.

Series:

Caribbean Studies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism--Caribbean Area.

Tourism.

Tourism--Social aspects--Caribbean Area.

Group identity--Caribbean Area.

Group identity.

Sex role--Caribbean Area.

Sex role.

Sex--Caribbean Area.

Sex.

National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature.

Discourse analysis, Literary--Caribbean Area.

Discourse analysis, Literary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jackson, [Mississippi] : University Press of Mississippi, 2015.

Summary:

'Resisting Paradise' asserts the importance of both tourism and diaspora in shaping Caribbean cultural and sexual identity. It examines Caribbean cultural producers who contend with the region's overdependence on the tourist industry and address the many ways that tourism continues the legacy of colonialism.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER ONE: Resisting Paradise-An Introduction; CHAPTER TWO: Caribbean Migrant Writers and the Politics of Return; CHAPTER THREE: Black Female Travel: Diasporic Connections and Revolutionary Desire; CHAPTER FOUR: Living and Imagining in Paradise: The Culture of a Tourist Economy; CHAPTER FIVE: Negotiating Tropical Desires in Social and Physical Landscapes; CHAPTER SIX: Vexed Relations: The Interplay of Culture, Race, and Sex; CHAPTER SEVEN: Rethinking Sites of Caribbean Rebellion and Freedom; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M

NP; R; S; T; V; W; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62674-603-6

OCLC:

921141528