<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This article offers a discussion of two books by British women which describe travels in Spain during the post-war period, that is, during the dictatorship of General Franco. The aim is to analyse how Spanish culture and society are represented in these texts, and to what extent the authors engage with questions of the ethics of travelling to Spain in this period. Two different forms of travel - by car, and by horse - also influence the way the travellers can connect with local people; and the individual’s interest in Spain as a historical site, or as a timeless escape from industrial northern Europe, similarly affect the focus of the accounts. The global politics of travel writing, and the distinction between colonial and cosmopolitan travel writers, are important elements in our understanding of the way a foreign culture is articulated for the home market. Women’s travel writing also has its own discursive history which we consider briefly. In conclusion, texts involve common discursive and linguistic strategies which have to negotiate the specificity of an individual’s travels in a particular time and place. The authors and books referred to are Rose Macaulay’s Fabled Shore: From the Pyrenees to Portugal (1949) and Penelope Chetwode’s Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalusia (1963).</p></abstract>

This article offers a discussion of two books by British women which describe travels in Spain during the post-war period, that is, during the dictatorship of General Franco. The aim is to analyse how Spanish culture and society are represented in these texts, and to what extent the authors engage with questions of the ethics of travelling to Spain in this period. Two different forms of travel - by car, and by horse - also influence the way the travellers can connect with local people; and the individual’s interest in Spain as a historical site, or as a timeless escape from industrial northern Europe, similarly affect the focus of the accounts. The global politics of travel writing, and the distinction between colonial and cosmopolitan travel writers, are important elements in our understanding of the way a foreign culture is articulated for the home market. Women’s travel writing also has its own discursive history which we consider briefly. In conclusion, texts involve common discursive and linguistic strategies which have to negotiate the specificity of an individual’s travels in a particular time and place. The authors and books referred to are Rose Macaulay’s Fabled Shore: From the Pyrenees to Portugal (1949) and Penelope Chetwode’s Two Middle-Aged Ladies in Andalusia (1963).

The Representation of Francoist Spain by Two British Women Travel Writers

Department of Modern Philology, c. Pérez del Toro 1, 35003 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria,

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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This article offers a discussion of two books by British women which describe travels in Spain during the post-war period, that is, during the dictatorship of...

The Representation of Francoist Spain by Two British Women Travel Writers

Published Online: Feb 21, 2017

Page range: 5 - 27

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/stap-2016-0017

Keywords
travel writing, ethics, post war Spain, tourism, women travellers

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

The Representation of Francoist Spain by Two British Women Travel Writers

Published Online: Feb 21, 2017

Page range: 5 - 27

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/stap-2016-0017

Keywordstravel writing, ethics, post war Spain, tourism, women travellers

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
travel writing, ethics, post war Spain, tourism, women travellers