Paradise and Plantation: Tourism and Culture in the Anglophone Caribbean - Paperback

by Ian Gregory Strachan (Author)

Examining poetry, plays, novels, travelogues, magazine ads, postcards, posters, brochures, stamps, popular songs, paintings, and illustrations, Paradise and Plantation presents telling links between the myth of a Caribbean paradise and colonial ideologies and economics.

Author Biography

Ian Gregory Strachan is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He is cofounder of the Bahamas Association for Cultural Studies and author of the novel God's Angry Babies and the plays Black Crab's Tragedy, Diary of Souls, and No Seeds in Babylon.