Whiteness, Weddings, and Tourism in the Caribbean [[electronic resource] ] : Paradise for Sale / / by Karen Wilkes

• Autore: Wilkes Karen
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (247 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.481909729
• Soggetto topico: Culture - Study and teaching; Sports - Sociological aspects; Cultural Studies; Sociology of Sport and Leisure
• Soggetto geografico: Caribbean Area; Caribbean region
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Chapter 1 Using Intersectionality to Challenge Visual Myths of Paradise -- Chapter 2 White Masculine Voices and their Construction of the Dark-skinned Woman as Sexual Primitive -- Chapter 3 Procuring White Femininity in the Colonies -- Chapter 4 Resurrecting Colonialism: Tourism in Jamaica during the Nineteenth Century -- Chapter 5 The Postfeminist Bride and the Neoliberal White Wedding in Postcolonial Jamaica -- Chapter 6 Feted and Pampered Whiteness in a (Post)colonial Paradise -- Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book examines myths of the Caribbean as paradise. These myths are used as a backdrop to market destination white weddings. The book is interdisciplinary and uses historical and contemporary visual texts to examine the way in which middle class white womanhood assumes a decorative, privileged, and elevated position within contemporary images of destination weddings in the Caribbean. To facilitate the notion of the Caribbean as paradise, the book argues that this production of luxury is highly dependent on the positioning of blackness as servitude. To this end, tourism marketing appropriates the Caribbean’s history of slavery; transforming the region into a site where whiteness can consume black labor as luxury.
• Titolo autorizzato: Whiteness, Weddings, and Tourism in the Caribbean
• ISBN: 1-137-50391-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910253340503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II