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- Title
Tourism and the Birth of Jamaican Literature.
- Authors
ROSENBERG, LEAH
- Abstract
The article explores the role of tourist writing and the tourist market in the works of prolific Jamaican writer Herbert de Lisser. During the first half of the twentieth century, the publication of Jamaican literature in Jamaica became a financial success and de Lisser contributed in this development. Elements of British travel writing and U.S.-oriented tourist guides have been incorporated by de Lisser in his works, thus, dominating the literary scene in Jamaica for four decades. It has been observed that the rehabilitation of the Victorian and tourist stereotypes of Jamaican market women was the objective of de Lisser during the first two decades of his writing career.
- Subjects
JAMAICA; TOURISTS; TOURISM; JAMAICAN authors; DE Lisser, Herbert George, 1878-1944; TWENTIETH century; JAMAICAN literature
- Publication
Jamaica Journal, 2010, Vol 32, Issue 3, p46
- ISSN
0021-4124
- Publication type
Article