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Title Transnational Desires
Full text http://rudar.ruc.dk/handle/1800/25657
Date 2015
Author(s) Uhlig, Louise; Ahmed, Nadia; Lopez, Kristina; Houmann, Amalie; Erhardtsen, Charlotte Koch
Contributor(s) Groes-Green, Christian
Abstract This theoretical project examines the phenomenon of transactional sexual relationships between Western female tourists and local Caribbean and African men, and which notions of the black man that Western women possess, and how these notions are tied to ideas of the other as inherited from colonial times. In order to receive the proper knowledge and information about the subject and historical context a selected number of articles by scholars are applied to collect information on amongst other things, race and sexuality both in colonial and postcolonial times. This aids in understanding the female sex tourists imaginaries and whether they have evolved from colonial discourses and mindsets, which is found to be true. The project finds the women are interested in the notion of 'otherness' and cultural differences is highly fascinated and desired. Thus the project proposes that colonial discourses are found in the women's attraction to the black man in correlation with sex tourism.
Subject(s) transactional sex; colonial times; race; sexuality; black men
Language en
Type of publication Thesis; Humanistisk international basisuddannelse (HIB) / International Basic Studies in Humanities
Repository Roskilde - Roskilde University Digital Archive (RUDAR)
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