Desafios e caminhos epistemológicos na abordagem do turismo a partir dos estudos da literatura e da cultura

Abstract

The tentacular capacity and omnivorous character of tourism have promoted its expansion to almost any area, theme or territory, including literature, as the emergence of literary tourism (in its various forms) shows. The intersections between literature and culture with tourism demand new analytical approaches and renewed critical readings. The aim of this paper is to re-evaluate the reasons and ways to study these connections. To this end, some significant features of current tourist practice are set out, as well as the ongoing academic debates about the nature of this phenomenon or about its interrelationship with culture and with identities (in a local, regional or national level). Secondly, I intend to explore the reasons for analyzing tourism in literature and culture studies and to offer some lines of research that may be relevant in this orientation, such as its proximity to the idea of canon, the role of literary and cultural products in the construction of tourist imaginaries or its (dis)connection with travel literature.