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The postcolonial playground: colonial narratives in contemporary tourism
This survey of twentieth and twenty-first century novels, guidebooks, magazines, and the social media platform Instagram illustrates the discursive paradigm by which Western backpacking tourists encounter the formerly colonized world. The "postcolonial playground" avails the non-Western world as a t...
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| description | This survey of twentieth and twenty-first century novels, guidebooks, magazines, and the social media platform Instagram illustrates the discursive paradigm by which Western backpacking tourists encounter the formerly colonized world. The "postcolonial playground" avails the non-Western world as a theatre for recreation and meaning-making, an engagement which renders locals as accessories to an experience, perpetuating colonial-era power dialectics that continue to privilege the Western subject over the individuals in whose homes they travel. Ideologically and in praxis, the postcolonial playground has become the naturalized disposition of Western tourists seeking their next holiday. In so many words, the formerly colonized world has been recolonized by tourists, who are oblivious to the regime of privilege that extorts locals in popular tourist destinations. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/23754 The postcolonial playground: colonial narratives in contemporary tourism Smith, Sean P Ouma, Christopher Literature and Modernity This survey of twentieth and twenty-first century novels, guidebooks, magazines, and the social media platform Instagram illustrates the discursive paradigm by which Western backpacking tourists encounter the formerly colonized world. The "postcolonial playground" avails the non-Western world as a theatre for recreation and meaning-making, an engagement which renders locals as accessories to an experience, perpetuating colonial-era power dialectics that continue to privilege the Western subject over the individuals in whose homes they travel. Ideologically and in praxis, the postcolonial playground has become the naturalized disposition of Western tourists seeking their next holiday. In so many words, the formerly colonized world has been recolonized by tourists, who are oblivious to the regime of privilege that extorts locals in popular tourist destinations. 2017-01-31T08:01:08Z 2017-01-31T08:01:08Z 2016 Master Thesis Masters MA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23754 eng application/pdf Department of English Language and Literature Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Literature and Modernity Smith, Sean P The postcolonial playground: colonial narratives in contemporary tourism |
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| title | The postcolonial playground: colonial narratives in contemporary tourism |
| title_full | The postcolonial playground: colonial narratives in contemporary tourism |
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| title_short | The postcolonial playground: colonial narratives in contemporary tourism |
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| topic | Literature and Modernity |
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