Abstract
This chapter offers a close reading of Olive Senior’s “Rejected Text for a Tourist Brochure,” where the poem’s lyrical I invites a lyrical you to visit the home island. By tracing a lineage from the exoticist gaze of colonialism to postmodern tourism advertisements, the poem highlights the latter’s destructive potential. The rejected text constructs an accusing and satirical image of a relentlessly exploitative identity that monetises the insular biosphere, its destruction and the nostalgia for it. By analysing the poetic (de)construction of post/colonial tropical island imaginaries and their consumption, I want to show how this poetic satire of tourist advertisements challenges, subverts and annihilates visualisations of the island paradise, thus reaching beyond the Caribbean and concerning the whole earth in the Anthropocene.
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