Take Me to My Paradise : : Tourism and Nationalism in the British Virgin Islands / / Colleen Ballerino Cohen.
The British Virgin Islands (BVI) markets itself to international visitors as a paradise. But just whose paradise is it? Colleen Ballerino Cohen looks at the many players in the BVI tourism culture, from the tourists who leave their graffiti at beach bars that are popularized in song, to the waiters...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (292 p.) :; 9 illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Notes and Names
- Introduction: Take Me to My Paradise
- Chapter 1: Tourism’s Paradise
- Chapter 2. Making Paradise as a Tourist Desti-Nation
- Chapter 3. “Nature’s Little Secrets”
- Chapter 4. Cultural Negotiations
- Chapter 5. Like Looking at Ourselves in a Mirror
- Chapter 6. Stanley’s Swing and Other Intimate Encounters
- Chapter 7. Of Festivals, Calypso Kings, and Beauty Queens
- Chapter 8. Performing Paradise and Making Culture
- Conclusion: Technically, It’s a Country
- References
- Index
- About the Author