...Angeletta KM Gourdine Small Axe Incorporated 2006 small axe 20 June 2006 p 80 96 ISSN 0799-0537 Caribbean Tabula Rasa: Textual Touristing as Carnival in Contemporary Caribbean Women s Writing Angeletta KM Gourdine Oh, by now you are tired . . . you want to reach your destination your...

...Corinna McLeod Jamaica Kincaid's A Small Place reveals the subalternity of Antigua as a tourist locale; an identity which undermines Antigua's position as a nation. Through the use of a metafictional discourse, Kincaid's narrator deconstructs colonial, postcolonial and neocolonial myths, thereby...

... that is the present. It focuses in particular on Santiago Muñoz’s Otros Usos (2014), which specifically explores Vieques, Puerto Rico. To apprehend the past that is the present requires indexing the continuity of the plantation economy, and thus its racial order, in the military complex, in the tourist economy...

...Beth Fowkes Tobin This essay takes up a question that Krista Thompson poses in An Eye for the Tropics about whether the highly tropicalized and touristic imagery found in colonial photographs can be used to narrate black histories. She asks: “Can postcards, the very representations that denied...

... of the political fortunes of black male leadership in the Caribbean as potentially thwarted by female authority, ancestral shame, and the objectification of tourist photography offers a useful way of conceptualizing the black radical tradition in terms of vulnerability as a condition to be avoided. Moreover...

... or ideologically opposed to the political registers of the music. The essay raises the question of ethnographically produced knowledge and its role in tourist or commercial enterprises. Finally, the essay poses the issue, as raised in other contexts by Alexander Weheliye, of the relationship of technology to sonic...

... Place , the narrator offers a sweeping vista of Antigua as experienced through the eyes of a tourist who is “North American or European—to be frank, white.” 1 Through incisive criticisms, the narrator exposes the tourist’s embeddedness in an ongoing practice of colonial paternalism marked...

..., for instance, might the “normalcy” that Homer may be seen to bring to black life, a celebrated aspect in his work, also be related to a touristic penchant for turn- ing everyday aspects of locals’ lives into visual spectacles? Might representations that appear normal in one geographic context have a very...

... purchase within the economy of a society that largely frustrates the possibilities of movement for the constituents of the larger community such urbane travelers represent. In this sense, my project is related to that of Patrick Holland and Graham Huggan, who, in their Tourists...

... of the IMF, for example, shape lending policies and public spending in different Caribbean nations? In what ways do security agreements between Jamaica and the United States impact investment and promotion of the island as a tourist destination? The parallel conversations around tourism and foreign policy...

.... Like a content-obliterating enlargement, Thompson’s interrogation of tourist-generated imagery in the Caribbean explodes the notion of a benign landscape or an inconsequential genre scene. Indeed, the very act of transforming the literal and figural landscape—from the placement and planting...

.... This is largely due to two factors: the transient population of sailors, and the tourist. On shore the sailor may seek the company of women or boys according to his fancy. The port exists, from the amusement point of view, to cater for his needs. The result is the existence of the professional homosexual youth...

... local and black or foreign and white, have developed varied sexual tastes and aesthetics for particular shades of black female bodies. 2 e race discussion is Small Axe 12, September 2002: pp. 209–211 ISSN 0799-0537 further complicated by data revealing that white female tourists arriving...

... or foreign and white, have developed varied sexual tastes and aesthetics for particular shades of black female bodies. 2 e race discussion is Small Axe 12, September 2002: pp. 209–211 ISSN 0799-0537 further complicated by data revealing that white female tourists arriving from Europe...

... as the local black porter within the nascent tourist trade in Roseau might be glimpsed earning two shillings per day carrying to the required destination “baggage, if not exceeding 60 pounds in weight all the way on his head.” The export of fruit mattered to islands’ economic prosperity, with Ober noting...

... the parameters of romance tourism’s love/ sex in the film Heading South (2005; dir. Laurent Cantet).1 Based on short stories by Haitian writer Dany Laferrière, the film is set in Haiti at the end of the 1970s and revolves around three North American sex tourists—Ellen (Charlotte Rampling), Brenda (Karen...

... in character with the scenery It was not until the late nineteenth century that the market woman assumed a prominent position in representations of the island. The rise in the market woman s popularity in images was directly related to two imperatives: the tourist trade and the civilizing mission. In the late...

... territories and repackaged as “natural” enclaves that are connected to global metropoli- tan transport, media, and data flows, while being disconnected from local populations and local control. This article explores how the fluid infrastructures of informational space and tourist space are converging...

..., the “lances of oars,” and their axes for the laurier-cannelles are part of the daily grind (1). Walcott’s Hector is not killed by Achille as in the Iliad, but dies driving a tourist van on his island. Philoctete is not abandoned to destiny by his fellow men as in the Greek tradition...

... and see the ocean and the true brochure-bright colors of my island: the rastaman selling fruits on the sea, the fishing boats at Gros Islet, the big-navel ti negs running and diving off the jetty, with arms like huge tamarinds. I try to feel it in the slow sound of old tourists walking barefoot...