Spanish Women's Travel Narratives in Colonial Morocco, 1900-36
The intersections benveen literature, travel, and geography have shown us that travel narratives are descriptions not merely of geographical itineraries but of a complex topography of alterity that was neither neutral nor innocent. At the same time, post-colonial and feminist revisions of the imperi...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2008 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:309381 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/309381 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Colonial Morocco Spanish colonies Moroccanism Women's travel narratives Aurora Bertrana Carmen De Burgos |
| Sumario: | The intersections benveen literature, travel, and geography have shown us that travel narratives are descriptions not merely of geographical itineraries but of a complex topography of alterity that was neither neutral nor innocent. At the same time, post-colonial and feminist revisions of the imperial period show that the relation hetweenWest and East was one of power based on a very androcentric positioning. After the loss of Spain's last colonies in 1898, Spanish foreign policy reoriented its overseas colonial strategies to focus on Morocco. In consequence, "interest " in this region increased dramatically, and many travellers wrote of their experiences there Within the study period (1900-36) we have counted about 60 male travellers but only four women For our discussion in this article we have chosen two of those women - Carmen de Burgos and Aurora Bertrana - because of their outstanding personalities and pioneering roles in the Spanish soctety. Their imagined geographies clearly ilhuminated Spanish travel writings from a gender perspective and question the notion of simple Othering, as presented in Said's Orientalism. in which the heterogeneity of colonial power is neglected. |
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