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Imagining the Tropics: Women, Romance, and the Making of Modern Tourism
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Series: Critical Caribbean Studies
Caribbean HistoryGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies
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ISBN10: 1978826893
ISBN13: 9781978826892
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: May 13 2025
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.15
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781978826892
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: May 13 2025
Pages: 218
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.15
Language: English
Imagining the Tropics is a history of the development of tourism in the Caribbean from the 1910s through the 1970s that focuses on the ways women's labors of hospitality, writing, and advocacy built the industry and its ubiquitous imagery of tropical island relaxation, escape, and romance. By examining a range of sources, engaging an array of women protagonists, and looking broadly across multiple Caribbean island-states including Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas, Barbados, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, it seeks to understand how the region came to be sold as a romantic escape from the troubles of the modern world. By putting women at the center of Caribbean tourism history--as both its ambassadors and objects of desire--it seeks to explain some of the complicated contradictions that plague the business of pleasure but also to point toward ways of building alternative models to its present and past extractive realities.
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