Greetings Everyone:
Growing up in Jamaica in the 70's under Manley, I often heard as part of the
circulating oppositional discourse that after the nationalism of Bauxite and
the acquisition of several formerly foreign-owned hotels, the word put out by
Washington was that Manley had to be punished. The result: the refusal to "sell
Jamaica" by tour operators and the refusal to by Jamaican Bauxite on the
world market.
I am more interested in the first narrative about tourism and its decline in
the 70's and 80's as part of a wider strategy of isolating and punishing the
Manley Regime. Can anyone suggest work that documents this, especially work
that traces the numbers and percentages of this decline?
Many thanks in advance.
Joe
Joseph N. Clarke
Assistant Professor of Postcolonial Literatures
in English
The University of Pennsylvania
English Department, Bennett Hall 119
3340 Walnut Street
Philadelphia PA 19104-6273 USA
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