Review:
"In An Eye for the Tropics, Krista A. Thompson's guiding preoccupation is with the construction of the Anglo-Creole Caribbean within a colonial regime of visual and discursive representation. How, she asks, was the Caribbean framed within the ocular terms of a tropical paradise as a space of verdant, quasi-primitive desire? The story she tells to answer this question is at once historically detailed and theoretically acute."--David Scott, author of Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment "Krista A. Thompson masterfully uses early-twentieth-century postcards to show how social, political, and racial issues are embedded in postcard imagery, while simultaneously analyzing current collecting practices. She makes substantial new and intriguing contributions to the understanding not simply of the historical tropicalization of the islands but of the persistence of such propagandistic attitudes in the economic survival of the islands today." --Judith Bettelheim, Professor of Art and Art History, San Francisco State University
"An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Landscape, which concentrates on Jamaica and the Bahamas, teases out the issues at stake in promotional representations of the island in the popular medium of photography (from postcards to slide projections) and underscores the connections between the visual marketing of the island and the politics of race...she consolidated her claim by surveying a wide range of visual material, dipping into local newspapers, excavating tourist board reports and conducting interviews...An Eye for the Tropics reveals some essential reflections upon the image-making machinery of tourism." --Melainie Vandenbrouck-Przybylski, Art History, Summer 2009
From the Back Cover:
"Krista A. Thompson masterfully uses early-twentieth-century postcards to show how social, political, and racial issues are embedded in postcard imagery, while simultaneously analyzing current collecting practices. She makes substantial new and intriguing contributions to the understanding not simply of the historical tropicalization of the islands but of the persistence of such propagandistic attitudes in the economic survival of the islands today."--Judith Bettelheim, Professor of Art and Art History, San Francisco State University
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