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Postcolonial tourism : literature, culture, and environment / Anthony Carrigan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carrigan, Anthony, 1980- author.
- Series:
- Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 33.
- Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 33
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism.
- Commonwealth literature (English).
- Tourism in literature.
- Ecology in literature.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Culture and tourism--Commonwealth countries.
- Culture and tourism.
- Tourism--Environmental aspects--Commonwealth countries.
- Tourism.
- Tourism--Social aspects--Commonwealth countries.
- Ecocriticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is the first literary study of postcolonial tourism. Looking at the cultural and ecological effects of mass tourism development in highly exoticized island states that are still grappling with the legacies of western colonialism, Carrigan contends that postcolonial writers not only dramatize the industry's most exploitative operations but also provide blueprints toward sustainable tourism futures. By locating this argument in the context of interdisciplinary tourism research, the study shows how imaginative literature can extend some of this field's key theoretical concepts while
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Tourism and nature: Visual perception and touristed landscapes; contested environments: tourism, indigeneity, and ideologies of development; tourism, desecration, and sacred land
- Part II. Tourism and culture: Touristification and cultural sustainability; tourism and reindigenization
- Part III. Sex, tourism, and embodied experience: Sex tourism, beach ecology, and compound disaster; gendered islands, tourism, and prostitution discourse
- Conclusion: storytelling, postcapitalism, and interdisciplinarity.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-83391-9
- 1-136-83392-7
- 1-283-04087-5
- 9786613040879
- 0-203-83209-4
- 9780203832097
- OCLC:
- 707068598
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