Angelique V. Nixon is a lecturer at the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. She is author of Saltwater Healing—A Myth Memoir and Poems and coeditor of Theorizing Homophobias in the Caribbean: Complexities of Place, Desire and Belonging.
A deeply insightful reading of the ways Caribbean cultural workers
from inside and outside the region negotiate the complexities of
tourism and critique controlling cultural myths about the Caribbean
as paradise. But as importantly, Nixon takes us beyond tourism’s
double-bind and shows how writers and artists offer
counter-narratives to exploitative tourism and neocolonialism that
are grounded in resistance culture, shared histories, and diasporic
connections. Resisting Paradise is an inspiring study, full of hope
and love for the Caribbean, offering us new ways of thinking about
ethical tourism and Caribbean freedom."" - Kamala Kempadoo,
professor, Department of Social Science, York University and author
of Sexing the Caribbean: Gender, Race, and Sexual Labor
""Whether rooted resident, mobile diaspora, or open-eyed tourist,
we all have something to learn from Resisting Paradise, Angelique
Nixon’s empirically elegant and fiercely honest inquiry into the
discursive, sexual, and material effects of tropical paradise. She
teaches us how Caribbean cultural producers have created
alternative ways of resisting and rerouting the damaging cultural,
ecological and spiritual effects of tourism."" - Mimi Sheller,
author of Consuming the Caribbean: From Arawaks to Zombies; Tourism
Mobilities: Places to Play, Places in Play; Citizenship from Below:
Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom; and Aluminum Dreams: The
Making of Light Modernity
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