Ebook: RESISTING PARADISE: tourism, diaspora, and sexuality in caribbean culture
Author: Nixon Angelique V
- Tags: Discourse analysis Literary, Discourse analysis Literary--Caribbean Area, Group identity, Group identity--Caribbean Area, National characteristics Caribbean in literature, Sex, Sex--Caribbean Area, Sex role, Sex role--Caribbean Area, Tourism, Tourism--Caribbean Area, Tourism--Social aspects, Tourism--Social aspects--Caribbean Area, Tourism -- Caribbean Area, Tourism -- Social aspects -- Caribbean Area, Group identity -- Caribbean Area, Sex role -- Caribbean Area, Sex -- Caribbean Area, Discourse analysis Lit
- Series: Caribbean studies series
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
- City: Caribbean Area;Place of publication not identified
- Language: English
- epub
Tourists flock to the Caribbean for its beaches and spread more than just blankets and dollars. Indeed tourism has overly affected the culture there. Resisting Paradise explores the import of both tourism and diaspora in shaping Caribbean identity. It examines Caribbean writers and others who confront the region's overdependence on the tourist industry and the many ways that tourism continues the legacy of colonialism.
Angelique V. Nixon interrogates the relationship between culture and sex within the production of "paradise" and investigates the ways in which Caribbean writers, artists, and activists respond to and powerfully resist this production. Forms of resistance include critiquing exploitation, challenging dominant historical narratives, exposing tourism's influence on cultural and sexual identity in the Caribbean and its diaspora, and offering alternative models of tourism and travel.