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Taking the topos of the Caribbean as paradise as point of departure, this article analyses how Edwidge Danticat’s  Claire of the Sea Light  and Junot Díaz’s  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao  re-write the stereotype of the paradisiacal and picturesque islands. This entails that literary texts and novels, as a form of armchair tourism, potentially offer a form of engagement with poverty in which the voyeuristic gaze can be deflected. Complex literary texts can be a ‘safer’ form of exploring, vicariously experiencing, and thinking about poverty.

Selling Poverty: Junot Díaz’s and Edwidge Danticat’s Assessments of Picturesque Stereotypes of Poverty in the Caribbean