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Author Nixon, Angelique V., author

Title Resisting paradise : tourism, diaspora, and sexuality in Caribbean culture / Angelique V. Nixon
Published Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 229 pages)
Series Caribbean studies series
Caribbean studies series (Jackson, Miss.)
Contents 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
NP; R; S; T; V; W; Z
Summary '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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 27, 2015)
Subject 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
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Discourse analysis, Literary.
Group identity.
National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature.
Sex.
Sex role.
Tourism.
Tourism -- Social aspects.
Caribbean Area.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2015035893
ISBN 9781626746039
1626746036
9781626745995
1626745994
9781626746008
1626746001
1628462183
9781628462180