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UNINA9910139336403321 |
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Autore |
Carrigan Anthony <1980-, > |
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Titolo |
Postcolonial tourism : literature, culture, and environment / / Anthony Carrigan |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-136-83391-9 |
1-136-83392-7 |
1-283-04087-5 |
9786613040879 |
0-203-83209-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Collana |
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Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; ; 33 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book is the first literary study of postcolonial tourism. Looking at the cultural and ecological effects of mass tourism development in |
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