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Whiteness, Weddings, and Tourism in the Caribbean
Karen Wilkes
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Description for Whiteness, Weddings, and Tourism in the Caribbean
Hardback. Num Pages: 251 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, 17 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
Number of Pages
239
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137503909
SKU
V9781137503909
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Karen Wilkes
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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