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Resisting Paradise

Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture

Angelique V. Nixon

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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte

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Winner of the Caribbean Studies Association's 2016 Barbara T. Christian Award for Best Book in the Humanities

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.

Resisting Paradise places emphasis on the Caribbean people and its diasporic subjects as travelers and as cultural workers contributing to alternate and defiant understandings of tourism in the region. Through a unique multidisciplinary approach to comparative literary analysis, interviews, and participant observation, Nixon analyzes the ways Caribbean cultural producers are taking control of representation. While focused mainly on the Anglophone Caribbean, the study covers a range of territories including Antigua, the Bahamas, Grenada, Haiti, Jamaica, as well as Trinidad and Tobago, to deliver a potent critique.

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Caribbean Studies, Travel, environment, Literary Criticism, Cultural identity, Blackspace, Black female travel, Erna Brodber, Anglophone, Christopher Columbus, spirit thievery, Afro-Caribbean, A Small Place, Guanahani, My Love, Esther Figueroa, overdependence on tourism, feminism, Bahamas, sex, Audre Lorde, Community, exploitation, Grenada Revisited, slavery, activism, historical narratives, Trinidad, Jamaica, Praisesong for the Widow, neocolonialism, spirituality, Paule Marshall, imperialism, migration, ethnicity, Jamaica for Sale, After the Dance, Jamaica Kincaid, Tobago, Gender Studies, Rewriting history, race, Antigua, On Coral Cay, Zombie, representation, Grenada, Edwidge Danticat, colonialism, Haiti, Class, Tourism, Marion Bethel, Consumption