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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808259003321

Autore

Nixon Angelique V.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2015

ISBN

1-62674-603-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Collana

Caribbean Studies Series

Disciplina

306.4/81909729

Soggetti

Tourism - Caribbean Area

Tourism - Social aspects - Caribbean Area

Group identity - Caribbean Area

Sex role - Caribbean Area

Sex - Caribbean Area

National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature

Discourse analysis, Literary - Caribbean Area

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

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

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Sommario/riassunto

'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.