On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise : : Affect, Tourism, Belize / / Kenneth Little.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Little, Kenneth,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: New Directions in Anthropology ; 45
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (204 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ILLUSTRATIONS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; Introduction WRITING STORIES OF MAKE-BELIZE --; Chapter 1 “FOR THE TIME IS AT HAND” BEAST-TIME SOMET’INGS --; Chapter 2 IMPOSSIBLE TROPICS --; Chapter 3 RICHIE’S TOURISTS --; Chapter 4 NOWHERE PARADISE --; Chapter 5 BELIZE EPHEMERA --; Chapter 6 BELIZE BLUES --; Chapter 7 PARCA’S PICKS --; Epilogue BELIZE FABULATIONS --; GLOSSARY --; REFERENCES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781789206470; 9783110997699
• DOI: 10.1515/9781789206470?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Kenneth Little.

There are beastly forces in Belize. Forces that are actively involved in making paradise impossible. On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise is a collection of seven stories about local lives in the fictional village of Wallaceville. They turn rogue in the face of runaway forces that take the form and figure of a Belize beast-time, which can appear as a comic mishap, social ruin, tragic excess, or wild guesses. Inciting the affective politics of life in the region, this fable of emergence evokes the unnerving uncertainties of life in the tourist state of Belize.