Postcolonial tourism
Subtitle: literature, culture, and environment
By: Anthony Carrigan
Series: Routledge research in postcolonial literatures -- 33; Routledge research in postcolonial literatures -- 33.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780415882736; 9780203832097
Subjects: Commonwealth literature (English); Tourism in literature; History and criticism; Ecocriticism; Culture and tourism; Ecology in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Tourism
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I. Tourism and nature: Visual perception and touristed landscapes; Contested environments: tourism, indigeneity, and ideologies of development; Tourism, desecration, and sacred land; title: Part II. Tourism and culture: Touristification and cultural sustainability; Tourism and reindigenization; title: Part III. Sex, tourism, and embodied experience: Sex tourism, beach ecology, and compound disaster; Gendered islands, tourism, and prostitution discourse; title: Conclusion: storytelling, postcapitalism, and interdisciplinarity.