The postcolonial playground: colonial narratives in contemporary tourism

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dc.contributor.advisorOuma, Christopheren_ZA
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Sean Pen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-31T08:01:08Z
dc.date.available2017-01-31T08:01:08Z
dc.date.issued2016en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationSmith, S. P. (2016). <i>The postcolonial playground: colonial narratives in contemporary tourism</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23754en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationSmith, Sean P. <i>"The postcolonial playground: colonial narratives in contemporary tourism."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23754en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSmith, S. 2016. The postcolonial playground: colonial narratives in contemporary tourism. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Smith, Sean P AB - 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. DA - 2016 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2016 T1 - The postcolonial playground: colonial narratives in contemporary tourism TI - The postcolonial playground: colonial narratives in contemporary tourism UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23754 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/23754
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationSmith SP. The postcolonial playground: colonial narratives in contemporary tourism. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Department of English Language and Literature, 2016 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23754en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of English Language and Literatureen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherLiterature and Modernityen_ZA
dc.titleThe postcolonial playground: colonial narratives in contemporary tourismen_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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