Spanish Women's Travel Narratives in Colonial Morocco, 1900-36 : Reconsidering Their Imagined Geographies
Cerarols Ramírez, Rosa, 1979-
Garcia-Ramon, Maria Dolores, 1943- (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Geografia)

Data:	2008
Resum:	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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Llengua:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Matèria:	Colonial Morocco ; Spanish colonies ; Moroccanism ; Women's travel narratives ; Aurora Bertrana ; Carmen De Burgos
Publicat a:	The Arab World Geographer, Vol. 11 Núm. 1-2 (2008) , p. 47-56, ISSN 1480-6800

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