Inhospitalidad, colonialismo y género en Over the Pyrenees into Spain de Mary Eyre

• Pere Gifra-Adroher ^[1]
  1. [1] Universitat Pompeu Fabra

     Universitat Pompeu Fabra

     Barcelona, España

     
• Localización: Rassegna iberistica, ISSN 0392-4777, Nº. 123, 2025, págs. 107-126
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.30687/Ri/2037-6588/2025/24/006
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  • español

    Este artículo analiza la representación de España como un país inhospitalario en Over the Pyrenees into Spain, de Mary Eyre, una agria narración del viaje en solitario que dicha olvidada escritora victoriana emprendió por algunas partes de la Península durante el verano de 1865. Partiendo de diversos enfoques sobre la hospitalidad y la inhospitalidad, se argumenta que Eyre eligió construir deliberadamente una imagen negativa de España al fusionar dos de las principales ideologías que, según Sara Mills, influyeron en los libros de viajes de las mujeres victorianas, a saber, el discurso del colonialismo y el de género. Eyre, quien durante su viaje fue acosada e insultada por su triple condición de mujer, extranjera y viajera solitaria, utilizó su narración para finalmente vengarse y describir el país de un modo que ninguna otra viajera victoriana había hecho antes.

  • English

    This article analyses the representation of Spain as an inhospitable country in Mary Eyre’s Over the Pyrenees into Spain, a bitter narrative of the solitary journey that this neglected Victorian writer pursued across parts of the Peninsula during the summer of 1865. Drawing on diverse approaches to hospitality and inhospitality, I will argue that Eyre chose to purposely build a negative image of Spain by blending the two main ideologies that, according to Sara Mills, influenced Victorian women’s travel books, namely, the discourse of colonialism and the discourse of gender. Eyre, who during her journey was harassed and insulted by her triple status of woman, foreigner and solo traveller, used her narrative to ultimately take revenge and describe the country in a way no other Victorian travellers had done before. .

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