Caribbean Inhospitality

Rezensionen / Stimmen

"In her deeply perceptive, critically adroit study, Belisle reexamines the Caribbean's long-standing image as a place of hospitality, arguing that the region is constituted as welcoming for the visitor even as its nations deny those conditions to their own citizens. Through a brilliant, broad-reaching analysis, she shows how this inhospitality registers as an aesthetic dimension, making visible forms of displacement that unsettle the meaning of home for Caribbean subjects. A key text for understanding the Caribbean's paradoxical position in our current moment." - Emily A. Maguire (author of Tropical Time Machines: Science Fiction in the Contemporary Hispanic Caribbean) "By doing a critical reading of the dynamics of tourist economies and displacement, local versus international, in literary, cultural, performative, and philosophical texts, Natalie Belisle offers an insightful look at the disputes between home, citizen, art, and space that define 'uninhabitable hospitality' in contemporary Caribbean societies. A tour de force and a great contribution to the study of agency and the redemptive power of art and the human in postcolonial and neoliberal Caribbean spaces." - Jossianna Arroyo-Martinez (author of Caribes 2.0: New Media, Globalization, and the Afterlives of Disaster)