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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Autores: Cerarols Ramírez, Rosa|||0000-0002-9596-2012, Garcia-Ramon, Maria Dolores|||0000-0002-5262-2990
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
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Palabra clave:Colonial Morocco
Spanish colonies
Moroccanism
Women's travel narratives
Aurora Bertrana
Carmen De Burgos
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Spanish Women's Travel Narratives in Colonial Morocco, 1900-36
Reconsidering Their Imagined Geographies
title Spanish Women's Travel Narratives in Colonial Morocco, 1900-36
spellingShingle Spanish Women's Travel Narratives in Colonial Morocco, 1900-36
Cerarols Ramírez, Rosa|||0000-0002-9596-2012
Colonial Morocco
Spanish colonies
Moroccanism
Women's travel narratives
Aurora Bertrana
Carmen De Burgos
title_short Spanish Women's Travel Narratives in Colonial Morocco, 1900-36
title_full Spanish Women's Travel Narratives in Colonial Morocco, 1900-36
title_fullStr Spanish Women's Travel Narratives in Colonial Morocco, 1900-36
title_full_unstemmed Spanish Women's Travel Narratives in Colonial Morocco, 1900-36
title_sort Spanish Women's Travel Narratives in Colonial Morocco, 1900-36
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Cerarols Ramírez, Rosa|||0000-0002-9596-2012
Garcia-Ramon, Maria Dolores|||0000-0002-5262-2990
author Cerarols Ramírez, Rosa|||0000-0002-9596-2012
author_facet Cerarols Ramírez, Rosa|||0000-0002-9596-2012
Garcia-Ramon, Maria Dolores|||0000-0002-5262-2990
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Colonial Morocco
Spanish colonies
Moroccanism
Women's travel narratives
Aurora Bertrana
Carmen De Burgos
topic Colonial Morocco
Spanish colonies
Moroccanism
Women's travel narratives
Aurora Bertrana
Carmen De Burgos
description 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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