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The Paradox of Paradise - William Nichols

The Paradox of Paradise

Creative Destruction and the Rise of Urban Coastal Tourism in Contemporary Spanish Culture

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Buch | Softcover
272 Seiten
2024
Vanderbilt University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8265-0621-4 (ISBN)
CHF 52,25 inkl. MwSt
Focuses on the trajectory of urban coastal tourism in Spain from the late Franco years to the present through the lens of Spanish cultural production. William Nichols has unlocked a strange, self-conscious archive that tells us as much about our own age of advertising as it does about the hotels and resorts and people on display.
The Paradox of Paradise focuses on the trajectory of urban coastal tourism in Spain from the late Franco years to the present through the lens of Spanish cultural production. “Sun‑and‑fun” destinations like Torremolinos (located in the Costa del Sol) and Benidorm (located in the Costa Blanca) established a model for urban renewal that literally built the coasts to accommodate and expand foreign tourism as the driving force of the so‑called Spanish Economic Miracle.

In addition to inserting the coasts into the scope of Iberian urban studies (typically dominated by studies of Madrid and Barcelona) this project breaks new ground by bringing to the fore unexplored cultural artifacts vital to the narrative of development along the coasts in Spain: in particular the ubiquitous tourist postcard, which advances not only the post‑Franco economic miracle, but does so by highlighting the transformation of the actual Spanish landscape along its coasts.

The Paradox of Paradise features more than twenty‑five striking images of coastal Spain in the throes of its own coming of age. William Nichols has unlocked a strange, self‑conscious archive that tells us as much about our own age of advertising as it does about the hotels and resorts and people on display.

William J. Nichols is an associate professor of Spanish literature and culture at Georgia State University.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Concrete Coasts and Liquid Tourism
Chapter 1. Designing Desire: Hotels and the Architecture of Paradise as the
Chapter 2. Scenes from Paradise: Postcards, the Tourist’s Gaze, and the Generation of Dreams
Chapter 3. Empty Tourist Spaces: Paradise, Satire, and the Photography of Martin Parr and Carlos PÉrez Siquier
Chapter 4. From Tourist Paradise to “ParaÍso Fiscal”: Construction, Corruption, and the Legacy of JesÚs Gil
Conclusion
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 27 color images
Verlagsort Tennessee
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 272 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Empirische Sozialforschung
Wirtschaft
ISBN-10 0-8265-0621-6 / 0826506216
ISBN-13 978-0-8265-0621-4 / 9780826506214
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