Drawing from Lyndon Gill’s “Returning the Gaze” in Erotic Islands: Art and Activ

Drawing from Lyndon Gill’s “Returning the Gaze” in Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean, Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place and Angelique Nixon’s “Negotiating Tropical Desires in Social and Physical Landscapes” in Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture, critically analyze how the texts are in conversation with each other. Specifically, discuss the ways Gill’s, Kincaid’s and Nixon’s texts invert “the tourist gaze” to underscore power imbalance via notions of invisibility, poverty as a determinant for movement of/between bodies, the external construction of Caribbean people and the “sexing”/gendering of the region.
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1. Have a title. It should not be ‘Written Assignment #2.’
2. Address the prompt with a clearly defined and well-articulated thesis statement and relating topic sentences for each body paragraph.
3. Possess accurate use of quotes (no quote should be a stand-alone sentence and must be synthesized into the essay). All quotes should be followed by close reading analysis. Analyses of quotes should be more than 2-3 sentences after the quote.
4. Accurate in-text citation and Works Cited/Reference pages.
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6. Avoid chronological accounts and lengthy summaries. Instead, make the claim and provide critical analysis based on textual evidence.
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