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An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque (Objects/Histories)
Krista A. Thompson
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| #1331495 in Books | Duke University Press Books | 2007-03-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.26 x.89 x7.04l,1.87 | File type: PDF | 392 pages | |||
“In An Eye for the Tropics, Krista A. Thompson’s guiding preoccupation is with the construction of the Anglo-Creole Caribbean within a colonial regime of visual and discursive representation. How, she asks, was the Caribbean framed with
Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands’ tourism industry in the 1880s. As Krista A. Thompson explains, in the late nineteenth century, tourism promoters, backed by British colonial administrators, began to market Jamaica and the Bahamas as picturesque “tropical” par...
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