Spain Is (Still) Different Tourism and Discourse in Spanish Identity

by Afinoguénova, Eugenia; Martí-Olivella, Jaume; Medina, Alberto; Gabilondo, Joseba; Flesler, Daniela; Melgosa, Adrián Pérez; Crumbaugh, Justin; Walton, John K.; Bolaños, María; Fraser, Benjamin R.; Hart, Patricia; Martín, Annabel

• ISBN13: 9780739124017
• ISBN10: 0739124013
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-28
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Spain Is (Still) Different addresses both theoretical perspectives on the study of tourism in Spain and specific cases of the cultural impact of travel and tourism on Spanish culture in the late eighteenth to early twenty-first centuries. With contributions from experts in leisure and culture studies, literature, film, and art historians from Spain, the UK, and the U.S., this innovative multi-disciplinary volume introduces readers to methodological and practical issues concerning the cultural function of tourism in Spain. The main body of contributions comes from the area of cultural studies. In the introduction, Afinoguénova and Martí-Olivella provide a comprehensive overview of the problematic of tourism in Spain and of diverse approaches to the study of tourism in its relation to Spanish culture. Unlike other collections on tourism studies, this book is aimed to bridge the gap between the social sciences and the humanities. It is structured to provide an example of how experts in different fields can use each other's work in order to achieve a multi-faceted understanding of the phenomenon of tourism and its implications.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction A Nation under Tourists' Eyes: Tourism and Identity Discourses in Spain	p. xi
Spanish Identity and Tourism Discourses
Emptying the Nation: Performing Spanishness in Cadalso's Moroccan Letters	p. 3
On the Inception of Western Sex as Orientalist Theme Park: Tourism and Desire in Nineteenth-Century Spain (On Carmen and Don Juan as Femme Fatale and Latin Lover)	p. 19
Marketing Convivencia: Contemporary Tourist Appropriations of Spain's Jewish Past	p. 63
Reading Rural Tourism: On the Recreational Nature of Basque Heritage	p. 85
Consuming History
Tourism and Consumption in Urban Spain, 1876-1975	p. 107
Modern Art Museums during the Franco Regime: Routine, Isolation, and Some Exceptions	p. 129
A Snapshot of Barcelona from Montjuic: Juan Goytisolo's Senas de identidad, Tourist Landscapes as Process, and the Photographic Mechanism of Thought	p. 151
Spaces of (In)Difference
Toppling the Xenolith: The Reconquest of Spain from the "Tourist Invader" in Iberian Film since World War II	p. 187
Miniskirts, Polka Dots, and Real Estate: What Lies under the Sun?	p. 219
Touristic Trades and Neo-Colonial Subjects: Subplotting/Sexploiting Women in Spain	p. 245
Index	p. 269
Notes on Contributors	p. 287
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