12. Mythical Moors: Constructing a Cultural Tourist Itinerary Around Valpaços

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Introduction xiii
5. Part 1: Exchanging Places
6. 1. The Business of Creative Tourism and Creativity in the Tourism Business 1
7. 2. Negotiating Mobility: On the Slow Move 20
8. 3. Mein Mallorca: A German–Spanish Love Affair 36
9. 4. Commercial Cinema, Location Shooting and ‘the Tourism Effect’ 47
10. 5. Nature, Culture and the Genesis of the Concept of Travel 63
11. Part 2: Narratives of Travel and Identity
12. 6. The Appeal of Otherness: Reconstructions of Self in Contemporary Travel Writing 79
13. 7. Representations of Maramureş in Contemporary Female Travel Writing: Dervla Murphy, Caroline Juler and Bronwen Riley 90
14. 8. Tourist Experience in Narrative Fiction: E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View 105
15. 9. Deaths in Venice: Dying for a Holiday 117
16. 10. Peregrinating Objects: Consumptive Capacities of the Traveller’s Personal Items in Robert Byron’s The Road to Oxiana and Jason Elliot’s Unexpected Light 133
17. 11. Travelling in/to Africa: Narratives of Postcolonial Encounters 146
18. Part 3: The Case of Portugal
19. 12. Mythical Moors: Constructing a Cultural Tourist Itinerary Around Valpaços 159
20. 13. (O)Porto: A Wine, a Place, a Route and a Meeting Point 171
21. 14. Cultural Interfaces and Perceptions of Space: A Polish–Portuguese Comparative Study 189
22. 15. Eating Portugal: Translating Food 206