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The Reinvention of Mexico in Contemporary Spanish Travel Writing
by Jane Hanley
Sales Date: 2021-09-23
To frame the analysis of contemporary travel writing, author Jane Hanley examines key moments in the history of Mexican-Spanish relations, including the origins of narratives regarding Spaniards' sense of Mexico's similarity to and difference from Spain. This history underpins the discussion of the role of Spanish travelers in their encounters with Mexican peoples and places and their reflection on their own role as communicators of cultural meaning and participants in the tourist economy with its impact—both negative and positive—on places.
Introduction
1. The Idea of Mexico: Historical and Touristic Narratives
Spain as Origin and Mexico as Destination
Spain in the Travel Economy and Managing Mexico
The Idea of Mexico: Text and Context
2. Memory, Text, and Expectation
Vanishing Empires: Francisco Solano in the Postcolonial Present
"Un viaje que huye del tópico"?
Between the Lost City and the Unchanging Place: Eduardo Jordá from Mallorca to Mexico
3. Violence, Instability, and Danger
Alfonso Armada and Corina Arranz's Mobile Frontiers
Alfredo Semprún's Viajes desaconsejables: Producing Novelty and Consuming Violence
4. Describing Selves in Worlds
Chiapas in Heredero's Chiapas: Colonialities of Perception, Sensory Nature, and Indigenous Subjects
Mourelo Following Turner Following the Yaqui in Donde mueren los dioses
Historiography in Motion: In the Footsteps of Cabeza de Vaca
Conclusion: On Writing a Twenty-First-Century Hispanic Transatlantic
Notes
References
Index
Jane Hanley is a senior lecturer in Spanish and Latin American studies at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
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