Tiger in Paradise
Reading global Mauritius in shifting time and space
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2173472 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Naseem L Aumeerally (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 161-180 |
| Publication date | 2005-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of African Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-6815 • E-ISSN: 1469-9346 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13696850500448261 |
| OpenAlex | W2095895614 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 22 |
This article consists of a reading of global financial magazines and tourist literature in the context of Mauritius' more recent self-promotion as an economic ‘Asian tiger’ miracle. This new representation signals a burgeoning hybrid postcolonial Mauritian identity that re-inscribes Asian diasporic history. Such a re-alignment decenters colonial Europe and regionalises Mauritius as part of Asia. Mauritian modernity is engendered by neo-Orientalist narratives inspired by a resurgence of colonial constructions of Mauritius as an erotic paradise, and a recycling of Asian tiger ethos. Collapsing Mauritius into the tiger cultural geography is particularly problematic for a multicultural nation since this emergent self-representation denies the contribution of people of non-Asian heritage. Inspiring itself from Asian ‘alter/native’ modernity, Mauritian global modernity also derives from a male-oriented capitalist paradigm and a subscription to discriminatory macho Asian tiger ideologies. It is the jingle ‘Tiger in paradise’ (Financial Times, 27 September 1994) which, I will conclude, most clearly interweaves the ambivalent colonial and diasporic constituents of postcolonial Mauritius
Archaeology · Art history · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Ethnology · Ethos · Exoticism · Modernity · Multiculturalism · Orientalism · Paradise · Political science · Sociology · Tiger · Anthropology · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Gender Studies · History
Globalisation and the Postcolonial World
Primitive passions
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Culture and Economy
Dissociated Identities
Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory
Global/Local
The Politics of Nation Building and Citizenship in Singapore
The Economic and Social Structure of Mauritius
Tourism, Ethnicity, and the State in Asian and Pacific Societies
The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital
Gender and Industrialisation
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
The Post Colonial Aura
Afro-Modernity
On Alternative Modernities
Towards a Global Culture
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2021 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |