Spain Is (Still) Different

Eugenia Afinoguénova is assistant professor of Spanish at Marquette University. Jaume Martí-Olivella is associate professor of Hispanic cultural studies at the University of New Hampshire.

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.

Part 1 Introduction: A Nation under Tourists' Eyes: Tourism and Identity Discourses in Spain Part 2 Part I. Spanish Identity and Tourism Discourses Chapter 3 1. Emptying the Nation: Performing Spanishness in Cadalso's Moroccan Letters Chapter 4 2. 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) Chapter 5 3. Marketing Convivencia: Contemporary Tourist Appropriations of Spain's Jewish Past Chapter 6 4. Reading Rural Tourism: On the Recreational Nature of Basque Heritage Part 7 Part II. Consuming History Chapter 8 5. Tourism and Consumption in Urban Spain, 1876-1975 Chapter 9 6. Modern Art Museums under Franco: Routines, Isolation, and Some Exceptions Chapter 10 7. A Snapshot of Barcelona from Montjuic: Juan Goytisolo's Senas de identidad, Tourist Landscapes as Process, and the Photographic Mechanism of Thought Part 11 Part III. Spaces of (In)Difference Chapter 12 8. Toppling the Xenolith: The Reconquest of Spain from the "Tourist Invader" in Iberian Film since World War II Chapter 13 9. Miniskirts, Polka Dots, and Real Estate: What Lies under the Sun? Chapter 14 10. Touristic Trades and Neo-Colonial Subjects: Subplotting/Sexploiting Women