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Campo Tejedor, Alberto
Journal for eighteenth-century studies, March 2020, Letnik: 43, Številka: 1Journal Article
From as early as the late sixteenth century, the barber in Spain was stereotyped as a lowly, idle chatterer, more concerned with the guitar than with his job. The anti‐French movement in eighteenth‐century Spain took up the figure of the barber as a symbol of majismo, a compendium of values and lifestyle resistant to foreign acculturation, meant to signify the Spanish national character. Analysing representations of the barber through an interdisciplinary lens, I seek to elucidate how this archetype allowed the construction of a Spanish, castizo narrative, in opposition to new fashions, and to the civilising and modernising spirit of France.
