Introduction: Travelling Texts in Spain and Spanish America

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Notes

[1] The author is grateful to all the contributors to this special issue for their patience during the process of its development and to the following people for their support and guidance in terms of both the conference project and in the production of this issue: Catherine Davies, Graham Huggan, Bart Moore-Gilbert, David Murphy, Terry O'Reilly, Philip Swanson, and Jason Wilson.

[2] See also Beardsell (2000, pp. 20–39).

[3] Indeed, Michel de Certeau (1990, p. 206) has declared that every narrative is a travel narrative.

[4] For example, Columbus's journals have inspired a plethora of debate, in works such as Henige (1991), Greenblatt (1991), and Zamora (1993). For just some examples of the writing of other colonial and post-independence travellers in Latin America, see Leonard (1972) and Stephens (1842).

[5] See also, on the same period and travellers, Mejía Pérez (2004).

[6] For an anthology of travel writing in Spain/by Spanish travellers, see Gómez Mendoza (1988). There are critical essays on Spanish travellers/travel writers in Burdett and Duncan (2002) and David Henn has written extensively on travel writing in Spain, especially on the travel writing of Camilo José Cela and Emilia Pardo Bazán, mostly recently in Henn (2004). For an overview of travel writing in/on Latin America, see Wilson (1987); see Tavera Alfaro (1984) for an anthology of travel writings on Mexico and Zamudio (2004) for recent critical approaches to travel writing in/on that country. See Lindsay and Youngs (2003) for critical essays on Latin American travel writing.