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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Dedication ; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures ; Chapter 1: Introduction; References; Chapter 2: Using Intersectionality to€Challenge Visual Myths of€Paradise; Visualizing Idealized Femininity; Global Media and€Tourism; How Invisible Is Whiteness?; Bodies In€or Out of€Place; Critiques of€the€Text and€Not Consumption or Production; The Image, Power, and€Deciphering Myths; Roland Barthes and€Myths; Round Hill's White Aesthetic; Round Hill's Pineapple House Hotel Transformed with€Luxurious New Design by Ralph Lauren; White Masculine Triumphalism and€the€"Lazy" Slave. |
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Blackness and€the€Racial SchemaAddressing the€Limitations of€Semiology; Analyzing Images to€Challenge Common Sense; The Caribbean, Tourism, and€Global Financial Institutions; Conclusion; References; Chapter 3: White Masculine Voices and€Their Construction of€the€Colonized Woman as€Sexual Primitive; Edward Said's Orientalism; Paradise and€Racialized Labor in€the€New World; Said's Debt to€Foucault; Disciplining the€Body in€the€Center and€at the€Margins; Paul Gauguin's Whiteness and€His 'Primitive' Life; Absences in€Foucault's History of€Sexuality; Homi Bhabha's Ambivalence-"The Other Question." |
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The Black Female GazeDiscourses of€Race in€the€Postcolonial Imperial Era; Making Whiteness Appear; References; Chapter 4: Procuring White Femininity in€the€Colonies; White Women, Empire, and€Respectability; White Male Power and€the€Black Female Body; Myths of€Stability and€Colonial Structures; Visualizing the€Enthralling Other; Miscegenation as€Satire; White Women as€Agents of€Empire; Gender, Race, and€Oppositionality; References; Chapter 5: Resurrecting Colonialism: Tourism in€Jamaica During the€Nineteenth Century and€Beyond; From Slavery to€Indentured Labor. |
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America's Increasing Influence in€JamaicaTourism: An€Escape from€Modernity; To Travel Is to€Be€Modern; to€Be€Modern Is to€Be€White; Creating "New" Knowledge: An€Object of€the€Colonial Gaze; Discourses of€the€Sexualized and€Disavowed Other; The Dominance of€the€Tropical Landscape in€Early Twentieth-Century Tourism Representations of€Jamaica; Jamaica as€a€Health Resort: Luxury Tourism for€the€Elite; The Promotion of€Tourism in€the€Modern Era; From the€Landscape to€the€Sexualized Female Body; Tourism for€Mass Consumer Societies. |
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"It Takes Cash to€Care": Neoliberal Approaches to€Tourism in€JamaicaTourism in€Jamaica in€the€Twenty-First Century; References; Chapter 6: The Postfeminist Bride and€the€Neoliberal White Wedding in€Postcolonial Jamaica; The Lucrative White Destination Wedding; The Valorized Female Body; The Sandals Wedding Style; Escape and€Have a€Beach Wedding; References; Chapter 7: Feted and€Pampered Whiteness in€a (Post)colonial Paradise; The Essentialized Black Subject as€Entertainer and€Butler; Revering and€Pampering White Femininity; Prepare to€Be€"Wowed" by the€Black Serving Subject. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Tourism -- Caribbean Area.
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Tourism. |
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Caribbean Area. |
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Culture and tourism.
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Culture and tourism. |
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Sociology: sport & leisure. |
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Cultural studies. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Hospitality, Travel & Tourism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| In: |
Springer eBooks |
| Other Form: |
Printed edition: 9781137503909 |
| ISBN |
9781137503916 (electronic book) |
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1137503912 (electronic book) |
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1137503904 |
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9781137503909 |
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1137503904 |
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9781137503909 |
| Standard No. |
9781137503909 |
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10.1057/978-1-137-50391-6 |
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10.1057/978-1-137-50 |
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