Identidade e alteridade: gastronomia, hospedarias e perigos da viagem nas narrativas de viagens portuguesas a Espanha da segunda metade de oitocentos

Abstract

Travel has always been a sensory adventure, and travel writing captures
that adventure, as well as the unforgettable sensations embodied in a transforming
element of space and the experience of place. Gastronomy and lodging are important
aspects of the traveler's experience. In this article, we propose to argue for the
importance of food, lodging, and the physical circumstances of the trip as themes
approached in Portuguese travel narratives to Spain of the second half of the XIX
century. Using a critical-comparative approach, this article aims to explain how these
topics are always perceived as a structuring aspect of the Spanish identity, as they
sometimes bring the two peninsular nations together, and sometimes separate them.
Therefore, the traveler can experience Spain through all his senses. Among other topics,
specific references to food and lodging will be essential in redefining the boundaries
between the Self and the Other, alterity and identity.