The representation of Francoist Spain by two British women travel writers

dc.contributor.authorMulligan, Maureen
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-31T08:16:27Z
dc.date.available2017-08-31T08:16:27Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractThis article offers a discussion of two books by British women which describe travels in Spain during the post-war period, that is, during the dictatorship of General Franco. The aim is to analyse how Spanish culture and society are represented in these texts, and to what extent the authors engage with questions of the ethics of travelling to Spain in this period. Two different forms of travel – by car, and by horse – also influence the way the travellers can connect with local people; and the individual’s interest in Spain as a historical site, or as a timeless escape from industrial northern Europe, similarly affect the focus of the accounts. The global politics of travel writing, and the distinction between colonial and cosmopolitan travel writers, are important elements in our understanding of the way a foreign culture is articulated for the home market. Women’s travel writing also has its own discursive history which we consider briefly. In conclusion, texts involve common discursive and linguistic strategies which have to negotiate the specificity of an individual’s travels in a particular time and place. The authors and books referred to are Rose Macaulay’s Fabled Shore: From the Pyrenees to Portugal (1949) and Penelope Chetwode’s Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalusia (1963).pl_PL
dc.identifier.citationStudia Anglica Posnaniensia, vol. 51.4(2016), pp. 5-27pl_PL
dc.identifier.issn0081-6272
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10593/19263
dc.language.isoengpl_PL
dc.publisherAdam Mickiewicz Universitypl_PL
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesspl_PL
dc.subjecttravel writingpl_PL
dc.subjectethicspl_PL
dc.subjectpost-war Spainpl_PL
dc.subjecttourismpl_PL
dc.subjectwomen travellerspl_PL
dc.titleThe representation of Francoist Spain by two British women travel writerspl_PL
dc.typeArtykułpl_PL

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