RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article T1 Strangers in a strange land: Mutual visions of Anglo-americans and Canarians in the 19th and 20th centuries A1 González Cruz, María Isabel A1 Vera Cazorla, María Jesús K1 otredad K1 Islas Canarias K1 identidad canaria K1 identidad angloamericana AB The discourse of Otherness is crucial for constructing identity. This paper deals with the role played by the views of the Other in the creation of an image of the Anglo-American as the positive Other in the Canary Islands (Spain), and the emergence of a view of Canarians as the strange natives of an exotic land. After introducing the socio-historical background for these intercultural contacts, we make a brief reference to the way the discourse of Otherness has been used in cultural and literary studies. Then we offer a series of descriptions taken from a selection of English-written publications dealing with the Canaries.Another section is devoted to the Canarian vision of the “ingleses” (English), mainly through the works of two authors, Guerra and Millares Sall. The article is conceived as a broad survey that tries to account both for textual detail and the discursive trends found in the corpus used. PB Universidad de La Laguna. Servicio de Publicaciones SN 0211-5913 YR 2011 FD 2011 LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/12534 UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/12534 LA en DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna RD 28-mar-2024