Whiteness, Weddings, and Tourism in the Caribbean Paradise for Sale
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, a...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Palgrave Macmillan
2016, 2016
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2016 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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