Caribbean Inhospitality: The Poetics of Strangers at Home

The Caribbean has a global reputation for extending unparalleled hospitality to foreign guests. Yet local citizens express...
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Author: Natalie Lauren Belisle
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Caribbean Inhospitality: The Poetics of Strangers at Home by Belisle, Natalie Lauren

Caribbean Inhospitality: The Poetics of Strangers at Home

$491.91

Caribbean Inhospitality: The Poetics of Strangers at Home

$491.91
Author: Natalie Lauren Belisle
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The Caribbean has a global reputation for extending unparalleled hospitality to foreign guests. Yet local citizens express feeling alienated from the Caribbean nations they call home. Here, Natalie Lauren Belisle probes the relationship between these incompatible narratives of Caribbean life. Departing from tourist-centered critiques of the Caribbean's visitor economy, Belisle instead gives primacy to the political life of the Caribbean citizen-subject within a broader hospitality regime. Reading literary, cinematic, and digital texts that traverse the Spanish, Anglophone, and Francophone Caribbean, Belisle interprets citizens' estrangement through misdirected political deliberation and demonstrates that inhospitality is institutionalized through the aesthetic, reproducing itself in the laws that condition belonging and membership in the nation-state. Ultimately, Caribbean Inhospitality recasts the decay of nation/state sovereignty in the postcolonial Caribbean within the contours of neoliberalism, international relations, and cosmopolitanism.

Author: Natalie Lauren Belisle
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 02/14/2025
Pages: 196
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781978838291

About the Author
NATALIE LAUREN BELISLE is an assistant professor of Spanish and comparative literature at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. This is her first book.

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