TY - JOUR
T1 - Through Portugal: From a British Traveller’s Deconstruction of the Spanish Image of Portugal to the Promotion of the Country as a Tourist Destination
AU - Terenas, Gabriela Gândara
N1 - info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDB%2F04097%2F2020/PT#
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/FCT/6817 - DCRRNI ID/UIDP%2F04097%2F2020/PT#
UIDB/04097/2020
UIDP/04097/2020
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Through Portugal (1907), a travel account written by the Hispanist, Martin Andrew Sharp Hume (1843-1910), invites examination from two complimentary angles. Due to Spanish ancestry on his mother’s side, Hume lived for a time in Spain, an experience which would mark his view of other countries and cultures. Hence, the first part of the present article will attempt to assess how far his experience of life in Spain gave him a stereotyped view of the neighbouring country – Portugal – which the author systematically deconstructs along his account. As I will attempt to show, it is the (re)discovery of the “Other” filtered not through what had been previously written by other British “Selfs” but rather by what “other Others”, the Spanish, had passed on to him. In the second part the impact of the book on the English-speaking world will be examined, linking it to the promotion of tourism to Portugal carried out by the Sociedade Propaganda de Portugal.
AB - Through Portugal (1907), a travel account written by the Hispanist, Martin Andrew Sharp Hume (1843-1910), invites examination from two complimentary angles. Due to Spanish ancestry on his mother’s side, Hume lived for a time in Spain, an experience which would mark his view of other countries and cultures. Hence, the first part of the present article will attempt to assess how far his experience of life in Spain gave him a stereotyped view of the neighbouring country – Portugal – which the author systematically deconstructs along his account. As I will attempt to show, it is the (re)discovery of the “Other” filtered not through what had been previously written by other British “Selfs” but rather by what “other Others”, the Spanish, had passed on to him. In the second part the impact of the book on the English-speaking world will be examined, linking it to the promotion of tourism to Portugal carried out by the Sociedade Propaganda de Portugal.
KW - Arthur Conan Doyle
KW - Portugal
KW - Sherlock Holmes
KW - Escrita de Viagens
KW - Travel Writing
UR - https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85177481321&origin=inward&txGid=4bfd1a367944b2b5a988d3b2dc32e84d
U2 - https://doi.org/10.34619/nkdi-i6dh
DO - https://doi.org/10.34619/nkdi-i6dh
M3 - Conference article
SN - 0871-682X
SP - 155
EP - 169
JO - Revista de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses
JF - Revista de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses
IS - 30
T2 - Touring Travel Writing
Y2 - 5 December 2019 through 7 December 2019
ER -