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Title: | Que redundase en beneficio de sus compatriotas: Julio de Larracoechea, Ramonchu en Shanghai y la China modelable |
Author: | Prado-Fonts, Carles |
Others: | Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Estudis d'Arts i Humanitats |
Citation: | Prado-Fonts, C. [Carles]. (2016). Que redundase en beneficio de sus compatriotas: Julio de Larracoechea, Ramonchu en Shanghai y la China modelable. Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research, 22(1), 61-77. doi: 10.1080/13260219.2016.1200273 |
Abstract: | Julio de Larracoechea served as vice-consul in Shanghai betweeen 1932 and 1936. After the outbreak of the Civil War he returned to Spain and wrote Ramonchu en Shanghai hoping that it would help him recover his post. The novel was published in 1941 and served its purpose. Ramonchu en Shanghai projects a representation of a distant China that favors Larracoechea's agenda and the exaltation of Spanish patriotism at the beginning of Francoism. This article argues that the effectiveness of Larracoechea's project is based on the inconsistency of China as signified. Here we can see how the orientalist and othering paradigms of previous centuries are still prevailing, even if they now coexist with more mature paradigms in the European context. Caught between a global scenario extremely interested in China and a national framework still politically uncertain, Ramonchu en Shanghai is able to transculturate the image of China towards a localized and particular representation that contributes to the construction of Spain during the first years of Francoism by using otherness and concepts such as patriotism, cultural imperialism or race. |
Keywords: | China Julio de Larracoechea otherness |
DOI: | 10.1080/13260219.2016.1200273 |
Document type: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Version: | info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion |
Issue Date: | 12-Jul-2016 |
Publication license: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/es/ |
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