Language & Intercultural Communication
Editor: Dr John Corbett (University of Glasgow)
Associate Editor: Robert Crawshaw (Lancaster University)
Reviews and Criticism Editor: Dr Fiona J. Doloughan (University of Surrey)
Editorial Board: Gavin Jack (University of Stirling)
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Volume: 7 Number: 3 Page: 188–202
doi:10.2167/laic181.0
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A Life in the Sun: Accounts of New Lives Abroad as Intercultural Narratives
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Tita Beaven
Faculty of Education and Language Studies, The Open University, UK
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Through an analysis of three settler narratives about new lives in Spain, Stewart (1999), Kerr (2000) and Lambert (2000), the paper explores three elements of these intercultural narratives that contribute to the formation of the settler's new sociocultural identity: the physical environment, explorations of the other through signs of the settler's adaptation and the redefinitions of the self this intercultural encounter often implies.
Keywords: intercultural narrative, intercultural communication, travel writing, identity, constructions of Spain
© 2007 T. Beaven
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