| Description |
1 online resource (278 pages) |
| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction; Part I Tourism and Nature; 1 Visual Perception and Touristed Landscapes; 2 Contested Environments: Tourism, Indigeneity, and Ideologies of Development; 3 Tourism, Desecration, and Sacred Land; Part II Tourism and Culture; 4 Touristification and Cultural Sustainability; 5 Tourism and Reindigenization; Part III Sex, Tourism, and Embodied Experience; 6 Sex Tourism, Beach Ecology, and Compound Disaster; 7 Gendered Islands, Tourism, and Prostitution Discourse |
| Summary |
This book examines representations of tourism in relation to some of the most charged areas of postcolonial debate, including ecology, globalization, neoliberal development, and Indigenous rights. It argues that postcolonial writers not only dramatize the industry's most exploitative operations but also provide blueprints toward sustainable tourism futures |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism
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Tourism in literature.
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Ecology in literature.
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Postcolonialism in literature.
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Culture and tourism -- Commonwealth countries
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Tourism -- Environmental aspects -- Commonwealth countries
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Tourism -- Social aspects -- Commonwealth countries
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Ecocriticism.
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Commonwealth literature (English)
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Culture and tourism
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Ecocriticism
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Ecology in literature
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Postcolonialism in literature
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Tourism -- Environmental aspects
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Tourism in literature
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Tourism -- Social aspects
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Commonwealth countries
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780203832097 |
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0203832094 |
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