Nixon, Angelique V.

Resisting Paradise : Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (242 pages) - Caribbean Studies Series . - Caribbean Studies Series .

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 -- N -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.

How Caribbean artists and activists counteract the apparently irresistible lure of the tourist dollar.

9781626746039


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.


Electronic books.

G155.C35 .N596 2015

306.4/81909729