20th century
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Author_Elizabeth Manley
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Barbados
British Virgin Islands
caribbean
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Cuba
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feminism
gender
Haiti
Jamaica
Puerto Rico
relationships
romance
the Bahamas
the Dominican Republic
tourism
travel
Trinidad and Tobago
US Virgin Islands
vacation
women
Product details
- ISBN 9781978826892
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 13 May 2025
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Imagining the Tropics is a history of the development of tourism in the Caribbean from the 1910s through the 1970s that focuses on the ways women’s labors of hospitality, writing, and advocacy built the industry and its ubiquitous imagery of tropical island relaxation, escape, and romance. By examining a range of sources, engaging an array of women protagonists, and looking broadly across multiple Caribbean island-states including Jamaica, Cuba, the Bahamas, Barbados, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, it seeks to understand how the region came to be sold as a romantic escape from the “troubles” of the modern world. By putting women at the center of Caribbean tourism history-as both its ambassadors and objects of desire-it seeks to explain some of the complicated contradictions that plague the business of pleasure but also to point toward ways of building alternative models to its present and past extractive realities.
ELIZABETH S. MANLEY is the Kellogg Endowed Professor of History at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. She is the author of The Paradox of Paternalism: Women and Authoritarian Politics in the Dominican Republic and coauthor of Cien AÑos de Feminismos Dominicanos with Ginetta Candelario and April Mayes.
