Wood, Gareth;
(2024)
“Everybody Hates a Tourist”: La España Rural as Theme Park.
Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies
, 25
(4)
pp. 511-528.
10.1080/14636204.2024.2421433.
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Abstract
This article will examine ways in which three contemporary artists – the filmmaker José Díaz and the writers Gabi Martínez and Isaac Rosa – engage with la España rural as a would-be theme park. It will argue that pressure from the conventions of the self-discovery documentary (Díaz) or the nonfiction narrative of return to rural roots (Martínez), causes both artists to slip into depoliticized solipsism. Meanwhile, the satirical writer, Isaac Rosa, uses his short story “#SoyMinero” to decry a tendency to frame Spain’s depopulated, postindustrial landscape as a nostalgic iteration of heritage tourism. This paper will examine to what extent such approaches to la España rural, for all their good intentions, can offer anything but a fleeting glimpse of solutions to intractable national problems.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | “Everybody Hates a Tourist”: La España Rural as Theme Park |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14636204.2024.2421433 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/14636204.2024.2421433 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | España rural, Isaac Rosa, Gabi Martínez, 100 Días de soledad, Un cambio de verdad |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10200104 |
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