“Everybody hates a tourist”: la España rural as theme park
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Gareth Wood [1]
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[1] University College London
University College London
Reino Unido
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- Localización: Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, ISSN 1463-6204, ISSN-e 1469-9818, Vol. 25, Nº. 4, 2024 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Cultural Engagements with the Rural in Contemporary Spain: Manifestations and Critical Tensions), págs. 511-528
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Resumen
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.
