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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.
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Subjects
Commonwealth literature (English), Tourism in literature, History and criticism, Ecocriticism, Culture and tourism, Ecology in literature, Postcolonialism in literature, Tourism, Travel in literature, Politics in literature, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Environmental aspects, Social aspects, Commonwealth literature (english), history and criticismPlaces
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Postcolonial tourism: literature, culture, and environment
2011, Routledge
in English
0415882737 9780415882736
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Table of Contents
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.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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