Postcolonial tourism : literature, culture, and environment / Anthony Carrigan.
Carrigan, Anthony, 1980-
2011
PR9080.5 .C37 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Postcolonial tourism : literature, culture, and environment / Anthony Carrigan.
Author
Carrigan, Anthony, 1980-
ISBN
9780415882736 (hardcover)
0415882737 (hardcover)
9780203832097
0203832094
Publication Details
New York : Routledge, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xvii, 259 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PR9080.5 .C37 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.9/32
Summary
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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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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-241) and index.
Series
Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 33.
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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.

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