Resumen de The Trans-textured Tourist: Literature as Knowledge in the Marking of Tourists
This paper examine. the ways in which those in literary societies learn to ho tourists through the t'isurel pradices of 'reading" createc writings and fictive texts. This cognitive act is a playful, inventive and an integral part of the normative process of socialization whereby humans are imbued with knowledge of cultural practices and values, together with social norms and expectations It is argued that from our readings of the many deep and central themes that run through fictional narratives we encounter the meanings of what it is to he a tourist. through the maoting of imaginations we learn of pervasive and eternal ideas that are woven into our literary culture and that are the essence of tourism: places and peoples that arc elsewhere; encounters with various forms of 'the other'; journeys, quests, pilgrimages and discoveries; notions of paradise; re'demplion and loss; a sense of belonging; the fleeting and the recollected. In the act of reading we construct imagined franieworks, which will later inform our actions and experiences.
