Wiarda, “Spain 2000: A Normal Country?” Mediterranean Quarterly 11, no. Richard Wright, Pagan Spain (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002), 228. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. Wright’s view of Spain could easily be interpreted as consistent with an Anglo and Anglo-American vision that has painted Spain as a backward or primitive space.4 Yet a careful consideration of this passage, and the larger discussion of geographic metaphors of identity, can lead to a more complicated interpretation of Wright’s vision. In the last section of his 1957 travelogue, Pagan Spain, Richard Wright develops the provocative thesis of his book that “though Spain was geographically a part of Europe, it had had just enough Western aspects of life to make feel a little at home, it was not the West.” 2 On the surface, Wright’s account of three trips to Spain during 19 appears to reproduce the discourse of Spanish exceptionalism-that is, that Spain is essentially different from the rest of Europe.3 Indeed, Wright goes as far as calling Spain “pagan,” placing Spain not only developmentally before modernity but even before Christianity.
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