ISBN:
9781789206470
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
204 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
New Directions in Anthropology 45
DDC:
306.4819097282
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
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 --
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