An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque (Objects/Histories)

"InAn 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 ofConscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial EnlightenmentKrista A. Thompson is the author of 'An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque (Objects/Histories)', published 2007 under ISBN 9780822337515 and ISBN 0822337517.