Whiteness, Weddings, and Tourism in the Caribbean: Paradise for Sale
Autor Karen Wilkesen Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 aug 2016
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781137503909
ISBN-10: 1137503904
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: XII, 239 p. 23 illus., 17 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2016
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1137503904
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: XII, 239 p. 23 illus., 17 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2016
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan US
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Introduction.- Chapter 1 Using Intersectionality to Challenge Visual Myths of Paradise.- Chapter 2 White Masculine Voices and their Construction of the Dark-skinned Woman as Sexual Primitive.- Chapter 3 Procuring White Femininity in the Colonies.- Chapter 4 Resurrecting Colonialism: Tourism in Jamaica during the Nineteenth Century.- Chapter 5 The Postfeminist Bride and the Neoliberal White Wedding in Postcolonial Jamaica.- Chapter 6 Feted and Pampered Whiteness in a (Post)colonial Paradise.- Conclusion
Notă biografică
Karen Wilkes is Lecturer in Sociology at Birmingham City University, UK. Her book chapter, From the Landscape to the White Female Body, was published in the edited collection Mediating the Tourist Experience (2013). Her journal article, Colluding with Neoliberalism, was published in Feminist Review in July 2015.
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This book examines myths of the Caribbean as paradise. These myths are used as a backdrop to market destination white weddings. The book is interdisciplinary and uses historical and contemporary visual texts to examine the way in which middle class white womanhood assumes a decorative, privileged, and elevated position within contemporary images of destination weddings in the Caribbean. To facilitate the notion of the Caribbean as paradise, the book argues that this production of luxury is highly dependent on the positioning of blackness as servitude. To this end, tourism marketing appropriates the Caribbean’s history of slavery; transforming the region into a site where whiteness can consume black labor as luxury.