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Item type | Location | Call Number | Status | Notes | Date Due |
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Book | AUM Main Library | 820.932 C316 (Browse Shelf) | Available | JBC/2011/11035 |
820.9145 C336The Cambridge companion to British romanticism / | 820.9145 C336The Cambridge companion to British romanticism / | 820.914509034 R759Romanticism / | 820.932 C316Postcolonial tourism : | 820.9353 H496Grief and genre in American literature, 1790-1870 / | 820.9353 H496Grief and genre in American literature, 1790-1870 / |
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.
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