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Record Nr.

UNINA9910139336403321

Autore

Carrigan Anthony <1980-, >

Titolo

Postcolonial tourism : literature, culture, and environment / / Anthony Carrigan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-83391-9

1-136-83392-7

1-283-04087-5

9786613040879

0-203-83209-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; ; 33

Disciplina

820.9/32

Soggetti

Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism

Tourism in literature

Ecology in literature

Postcolonialism in literature

Culture and tourism - Commonwealth countries

Tourism - Environmental aspects - Commonwealth countries

Tourism - Social aspects - Commonwealth countries

Ecocriticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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