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An eye for the tropics : tourism, photography, and framing the Caribbean picturesque / Krista A. Thompson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thompson, Krista A., 1972-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Objects/histories.
- Objects/histories
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tourism--Caribbean Area.
- Tourism.
- Tourism in art.
- Travel photography--Caribbean Area.
- Travel photography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (421 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A beautifully illustrated look at the aesthetics and implications of the visual images used to sell Jamaica and the Bahamas to tourists as ""tropical paradises"" from the 1880s through the 1930s.
- Contents:
- Tropicalization: the aesthetics and politics of space in Jamaica and the Bahamas
- 1. Framing "The New Jamaica": Feasting on the Picturesque Tropical Landscape
- 2. Developing the tropics: The Politics of the Picturesque in the Bahamas
- 3. Through the looking glass: Visualizing the Sea as Icon of the Bahamas
- 4. Diving into the racial waters of beach space in Jamaica: Tropical Modernity and the Myrtle Bank Hotel's Pool
- 5. "I am rendered speechless by your idea of beauty": The Picturesque in History and Art in the Postcolony
- Tropical futures.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-348) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822337515
- 0822337517
- OCLC:
- 1158007688
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