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. Lives 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.
ISBN: | 9781805393443 |
Publication date: | 2nd August 2024 |
Author: | Kenneth Little |
Publisher: | Berghahn Books |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 204 pages |
Series: | New Directions in Anthropology |
Genres: |
Social and cultural anthropology Teaching of students with learning difficulties |