Kenneth Little

On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise (eBook, ePUB)

Affect, Tourism, Belize

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There are beastly forces in Belize. Forces that are actively involved in making paradise impossible. On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise is a collection of seven stories about local lives in the fictional village of Wallaceville. They turn rogue in the face of runaway forces that take the form and figure of a Belize beast-time, which can appear as a comic mishap, social ruin, tragic excess, or wild guesses. Inciting the affective politics of life in the region, this fable of emergence evokes the unnerving uncertainties of life in the tourist state of Belize.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781805394525
• Artikelnr.: 69695887

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Little is Associate Professor of Anthropology at York University in Toronto. His research focuses on the analysis of society as spectacle, the critical turn in anthropology to the study of affect, social creativity, experiments in ethnographic writing and performativity.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Writing Stories of Make-Belize
Chapter 1. "For the Time is at Hand": Beast-Time Somet'ings
Chapter 2. Impossible Tropics
Chapter 3. Richie's Tourists
Chapter 4. Nowhere Paradise
Chapter 5. Belize Ephemera
Chapter 6. Belize Blues
Chapter 7. Parca's Picks
Epilogue: Belize Fabulations
Glossary
References
Index