Title Postcolonial tourism : literature, culture, and environment / Anthony Carrigan

Published New York : Routledge, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 259 pages) Series Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 33 Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 33. Contents Introduction -- Tourism and nature. Visual perception and touristed landscapes -- Contested environments: tourism, indigeneity, and ideologies of development -- Tourism, desecration, and sacred land -- Tourism and culture. Touristification and cultural sustainability -- Tourism and reindigenization -- Sex, tourism, and embodied experience. Sex tourism, beach ecology, and compound disaster -- Gendered islands, tourism, and prostitution discourse -- Conclusion: storytelling, postcapitalism, and interdisciplinarity Summary Carrigan here examines the aesthetic portrayal of tourism in postcolonial literatures. Looking at the cultural and ecological effects of mass tourism development in states that are still grappling with the legacies of 'western' colonialism, he argues that postcolonial writers provide blueprints toward sustainable tourism futures Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject 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. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Commonwealth literature (English) Culture and tourism Ecocriticism Ecology in literature Postcolonialism in literature Tourism -- Environmental aspects Tourism in literature Tourism -- Social aspects Commonwealth countries Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2010031060 ISBN 9780203832097 0203832094 9781136833922 1136833927 9781136833878 1136833870 9781136833915 1136833919 9780415810999 041581099X 1283040875 9781283040877 9786613040879 6613040878

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