Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2012
Journal Title
Cincinnati Romance Review
Volume Number
33
First Page
78
Last Page
97
Version
Publisher PDF: the final published version of the article, with professional formatting and typesetting
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND License.
Abstract
In July of 1924 Spanish vanguardist Ramón Gómez de la Serna published “El primer mapa gastronómico de España” in the humor weekly Buen humor (1921-1931). Although Ramón’s map locates and catalogues Spain’s alimentary wealth and diversity, his accompanying vignette mockingly deconstructs the supposed objectivity of the map and the cartographic authority of its creator, the “cartógrafo gastronómico.” This study places Ramón’s commentary and map in the historical and social context of 1920s Spain, a period during which two very different lifestyles co-existed in the same Spanish “nation.” Ramón’s cartógrafo exists at the margins of both versions of Spain. Ramón’s mocking of the cartógrafo to provoke the laughter of his readership serves as a social critique of the Spanish nation-building project as it ultimately subverts and undermines the Spanishness of Spanish cuisine and gastronomy. In his description of the cartógrafo’s mission, Ramón demonstrates the failure of a singular Spanish identity based on “liberal national” citizenship (Álvarez Junco 83).
Digital USD Citation
Ingram, Rebecca PhD, "Mapping and Mocking: Spanish Cuisine and Ramón Gómez de la Serna’s “El primer mapa gastronómico de España”" (2012). Spanish: Faculty Scholarship. 4.
https://digital.sandiego.edu/spanish-faculty/4
Notes
https://scholar.uc.edu/show/9s1617615