Campoy-Cubillo Memories of the Maghreb

Transnational Identities in Spanish Cultural Production
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-137-02815-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 219 Seiten

Reihe: Political Science and International Studies (R0)

Using a cultural studies approach, this book explores how the Spanish colonization of North Africa continues to haunt Spain's efforts to articulate a national identity that can accommodate both the country's diversity, brought about by immigration from its old colonies, and the postnational demands of its integration in the European Union.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Campoy-Cubillo, Adolfo

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: THE HISTORICAL NOVEL AND THE MAGHREB Colonial Memories in the Mass Market From Imperial to National Identity: Revisiting the Realist Tradition in Spanish Literature Haunted by Colonial Dreams: Contemporary Fiction on the Spanish Colonization of the Maghreb PART II: DIASPORIC NARRATIVES: FROM THE MAGHREB TO THE SEPHARAD Sephardic Identity and the Enlightenment's European Project A Plurilingual Memory: Representations of the Sephardim in Contemporary Spanish Literature Antonio Muñoz Molina's Sefarad: A Monolingual Memory Iberianism and its Discontents Daoudi's El diablo de Yudis: Identity as Performance Necessary Fictions: Building New Imagined Communities in Contemporary Catalonia PART III: HISPANO-SAHARAWI FRATERNITY: NOMADIC DESIRE AND IMPERIAL NOSTALGIA Western Sahara: The Last and Lasting Colonial Conflict in Africa Rhizome and Colonial Desire: Spain in Western Sahara Spanish Cultural Production on Western Sahara

Über Autor(innen)

Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo is an assistant professor of Spanish at Oakland University.