Molly Nichols
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781781382950
- eISBN:
- 9781781384022
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781382950.003.0009
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
In this chapter, Molly Nichols explores the ways in which Oonya Kempadoo’s novel Tide Running (2001) reflects, challenges, and complicates the sexualization and eroticization of Caribbean bodies and ...
More
In this chapter, Molly Nichols explores the ways in which Oonya Kempadoo’s novel Tide Running (2001) reflects, challenges, and complicates the sexualization and eroticization of Caribbean bodies and environments. Examining the impact of tourism on the region, the chapter shows how Kempadoo’s depictions of landscape and sexuality reveal the ways these sites have been produced to facilitate exploitation. The analysis is grounded in a consideration of neoliberalism and sexual labour in Tobago. Tide Running creates a space for depicting the beauty of landscape and the pleasure of sex; but, as this chapter demonstrates, it also reveals how the production of nature and of sexual difference is always enmeshed in relations of class power.Less
In this chapter, Molly Nichols explores the ways in which Oonya Kempadoo’s novel Tide Running (2001) reflects, challenges, and complicates the sexualization and eroticization of Caribbean bodies and environments. Examining the impact of tourism on the region, the chapter shows how Kempadoo’s depictions of landscape and sexuality reveal the ways these sites have been produced to facilitate exploitation. The analysis is grounded in a consideration of neoliberalism and sexual labour in Tobago. Tide Running creates a space for depicting the beauty of landscape and the pleasure of sex; but, as this chapter demonstrates, it also reveals how the production of nature and of sexual difference is always enmeshed in relations of class power.
Michael Niblett
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617032479
- eISBN:
- 9781617032486
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617032479.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This chapter explores how the utopian imaginings of the texts considered in Chapter 4 remain unfulfilled in the contemporary Caribbean as a result of the continuation both of imperialist exploitation ...
More
This chapter explores how the utopian imaginings of the texts considered in Chapter 4 remain unfulfilled in the contemporary Caribbean as a result of the continuation both of imperialist exploitation and of internal problems such as ethnic conflict and parasitic indigenous elites. It begins by reexamining some of the themes broached in Chapter 4 in terms of Francophone Indo-Caribbean literature. The chapter then switches to the Anglophone Caribbean to examine work from the 1980s, 1990s, and the first decade of the twenty-first century by a series of women writers, including Oonya Kempadoo, Margaret Cezair-Thompson, Michelle Cliff, and Shani Mootoo, whose novels mediate the crises suffered by the nation-state since the 1970s through the lens of gender relations and issues of sexuality. It also examines the particular problems that confronted Cuba following the collapse of the Soviet Union after 1989. The chapter concludes by considering the claims of regionalism while continuing to insist on the importance of the nation-state to any effort to combat the imperialist logic of global capital.Less
This chapter explores how the utopian imaginings of the texts considered in Chapter 4 remain unfulfilled in the contemporary Caribbean as a result of the continuation both of imperialist exploitation and of internal problems such as ethnic conflict and parasitic indigenous elites. It begins by reexamining some of the themes broached in Chapter 4 in terms of Francophone Indo-Caribbean literature. The chapter then switches to the Anglophone Caribbean to examine work from the 1980s, 1990s, and the first decade of the twenty-first century by a series of women writers, including Oonya Kempadoo, Margaret Cezair-Thompson, Michelle Cliff, and Shani Mootoo, whose novels mediate the crises suffered by the nation-state since the 1970s through the lens of gender relations and issues of sexuality. It also examines the particular problems that confronted Cuba following the collapse of the Soviet Union after 1989. The chapter concludes by considering the claims of regionalism while continuing to insist on the importance of the nation-state to any effort to combat the imperialist logic of global capital.
