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Carrigan, Anthony, 1980-
Postcolonial tourism : literature, culture, and environment / Anthony Carrigan. - New York : Routledge, 2011. - xvii, 259 p. ; 24 cm. - Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 33 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Part I. Tourism and nature: Visual perception and touristed landscapes; Contested environments: tourism, indigeneity, and ideologies of development; Tourism, desecration, and sacred land -- Part II. Tourism and culture: Touristification and cultural sustainability; Tourism and reindigenization -- Part III. Sex, tourism, and embodied experience: Sex tourism, beach ecology, and compound disaster; Gendered islands, tourism, and prostitution discourse -- Conclusion: storytelling, postcapitalism, and interdisciplinarity.
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.
9780415882736 0415882737 9780203832097 0203832094
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.
PR9080.5 / .C37 2011
820.932 / C316
Postcolonial tourism : literature, culture, and environment / Anthony Carrigan. - New York : Routledge, 2011. - xvii, 259 p. ; 24 cm. - Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 33 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Part I. Tourism and nature: Visual perception and touristed landscapes; Contested environments: tourism, indigeneity, and ideologies of development; Tourism, desecration, and sacred land -- Part II. Tourism and culture: Touristification and cultural sustainability; Tourism and reindigenization -- Part III. Sex, tourism, and embodied experience: Sex tourism, beach ecology, and compound disaster; Gendered islands, tourism, and prostitution discourse -- Conclusion: storytelling, postcapitalism, and interdisciplinarity.
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.
9780415882736 0415882737 9780203832097 0203832094
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.
PR9080.5 / .C37 2011
820.932 / C316