Naslov
Economic Transactions between Characters: Representations of Tourism Practices in Contemporary Croatian Literature and Culture

Autori
Molvarec, Lana

Izvornik
Colloquia humanistica (2392-2419) 8 (2019); 311-340

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
social knowledge, capital, libidinal economy, sexual tourism, tourist destination, spatial practices.

Sažetak
Te aim of this paper is to examine the complex relational dynamics between tourism (both as a global phenomenon and a set of specifc practices), space and economy in selected literary texts whose narratives are set in two diferent economic and political periods: socialism, and capitalism and democracy. Since these concepts cannot be easily understood through disciplinary knowledge, this paper will view the chosen literary texts as pre- disciplinary cultural products that generate specifc “social knowledge” (Felski) which presents the fullness of the social world more successfully than other forms of culture or knowledge. Te authors whose literary texts were included in this analysis are contemporary Croatian writers: Antun Šoljan, Zoran Ferić, Boris Dežulović and Jurica Pavičić. Te frst two authors wrote texts in which the relationships between tourists and locals are prevalently of symbolic and exchange value, and they mostly belong to the sphere of libidinal economy. Dežulović and Pavičić deal with contemporary tourism practices which change the identity of towns and people forever. In conclusion, these two accounts from diferent socioeconomic and political chronotopes are compared through the importance of space as a powerful resource in economic transactions between characters.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Književnost, Kroatologija

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