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



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Autore: Nixon Angelique V. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Resisting paradise : tourism, diaspora, and sexuality in Caribbean culture / / Angelique V. Nixon Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Jackson, [Mississippi] : , : University Press of Mississippi, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 p.)
Disciplina: 306.4/81909729
Soggetto topico: 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
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Resisting paradise  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-62674-603-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910808259003321
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Serie: Caribbean Studies Series