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Masculinity on the move from Barcelona to Bombay: the men of the Catalan bourgeoisie and their bodily encounters in colonial India

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Title: Masculinity on the move from Barcelona to Bombay: the men of the Catalan bourgeoisie and their bodily encounters in colonial India
Authors: Segura-Garcia, Teresa
Publisher Information: Leiden University Press, 2025.
Publication Year: 2025
Subject Terms: Barcelona, Masculinities, Catalan bourgeoisie, Bombay, Colonial India, Global tourism
Description: In 1908, two travelers from Barcelona embarked on a year-long world tour. Stage designer Oleguer Junyent and textile heir Marià Recolons’ trip took them across the British Empire, with India as their most significant stop. The chapter examines their bodily encounters in India through the written and visual sources produced around the tour. In the spaces of the emerging global tourism of the time—the restaurant, the hotel, the club—Recolons and Junyent interacted with British elites and with Indian men, both elite and subaltern. While the travelers immersed themselves into British elite bodily practices, it was Indians who were at the center of their most intimate connections. The chapter argues that metropolitan Spanish masculinity was fleetingly transformed by embracing the trappings of British imperialism while forging links with the colonized. In this way, it makes an original contribution to our growing understanding of the contact zone of European and Indian masculinities.
Document Type: Part of book or chapter of book
File Description: application/pdf
Language: English
Access URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/68366
Rights: CC BY NC ND
Accession Number: edsair.30a7861ff95c..8b41b8506455f2838be0c846aeb607b3
Database: OpenAIRE
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Abstract:In 1908, two travelers from Barcelona embarked on a year-long world tour. Stage designer Oleguer Junyent and textile heir Marià Recolons’ trip took them across the British Empire, with India as their most significant stop. The chapter examines their bodily encounters in India through the written and visual sources produced around the tour. In the spaces of the emerging global tourism of the time—the restaurant, the hotel, the club—Recolons and Junyent interacted with British elites and with Indian men, both elite and subaltern. While the travelers immersed themselves into British elite bodily practices, it was Indians who were at the center of their most intimate connections. The chapter argues that metropolitan Spanish masculinity was fleetingly transformed by embracing the trappings of British imperialism while forging links with the colonized. In this way, it makes an original contribution to our growing understanding of the contact zone of European and Indian masculinities.