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drive away the tourists simply by setting up camp on the beach; in
order to keep their land from being taken, the people of Morlands must
make their presence visible. If the Caribbean people cannot be erased
from the landscape, then it cannot be claimed as a tourist site.
 For Clare in No Telephone to Heaven, reinhabiting her place of birth
is also an important part of resistance. A year or two after returning to
Jamaica, Clare allows a revolutionary group to use the land she has
inherited from her grandmother; together they reclaim the land from
the wilderness that has taken over, clearing the land with machetes
and using pigs to root up the stumps. They plant ganja to trade for
American guns and food to feed themselves and the poor people of the
neighborhood. In clearing the land, they leave some of the trees and
brush to hide their reinhabited space: "The soldiers left enough forest
alive so that they were not visible from the road which passed at the
foot of the hill....People of course knew someone was there, but they
were given to understand only that the granddaughter of Miss Mattie
had returned." (Cliff 11) They create a semblance of the unspoiled
virgin landscape touted by tourist books, but it is only an illusion.
Behind this facade of wilderness, revolutionaries are reclaiming the
land, using it to acquire the means to begin their own sort of guerilla
warfare.
 Once they acquire the necessary weapons, the revolutionaries
choose a rather unusual target for their attack: a movie set. This seems
at first to be a ludicrous and trivial choice, but the filmmakers are
intimately involved in creating the images that fuel touristic
exploitation. A "Special to The New York Times" describing the site
chosen for the film bears a remarkable likeness to the depictions found
in tour guides:

 Jamaica, which is about an hour and a half south of Miami by jet, is a
 little smaller than Connecticut and has some of the most varied terrain
 in the world. It not only has all the beaches, sparkling clear water
 and foliage you would expect to find on a tropical island, but it also
 has mountains more than 7,000 feet, waterfalls, caves, wide open areas
 that resemble the African plain and even arid sections that will pass
 for desert.
 In addition, it has the abundance of the Spanish and British colonial
 buildings dating back to the 1500s. It has concrete and glass cities,
 elegant suburban homes, ramshackle slums and villages with thatched
 huts. It also has a racially mixed population of many hues and ethnic
 distinctions, which .. includes a number of people willing to serve