Paradise And Plantation
"It is hard to ignore the hotels. They rise like mammoths of iron and concrete above the homes, the office buildings, the trees of New Providence, island of my birth." So begins Ian Strachan’s history of the idea of the Caribbean as paradise. The modern image of the Bahamas as a carefree tourist oasis has its origins in much earlier cultural mythology: the first colonizers conceptualized the Caribbean as a place beyond time, beyond the real, and the region produced profit seemingly without...
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Novelist and playwright Strachan (English, U. of Massachusetts- Dartmouth) identifies historical, political, economic, cultural, and geographical conditions that make his native Caribbean an ideal location for paradise, and discusses the means by which the idea has thrived among travel agents and their clients. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: Paradise Discourse11Paradise and Imperialism172Caribbean Wasteland513Paradise Is Plantation?924Naipaul's "Garden of Hell"1495Walcott's Postcolonial Adam1926World out of Time224Conclusion: The True History of Paradise261Notes269Bibliography291Index311
