Disorientations

Spanish Colonialism in Africa and the Performance of Identity

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

This book explores from a new perspective the fraught processes of Spaniards' efforts to formulate a national identity, from the Enlightenment to the present day. Focusing on the nation’s Islamic-African legacy, Susan Martin-Márquez disputes received wisdom that Spain has consistently rejected its historical relationship to Muslims and Africans. Instead, she argues, Spaniards have sometimes denied and sometimes embraced this legacy, and that vacillation has served to destabilize presumably fixed borders between Europe and the Muslim world and between Europe and Africa. Martin-Márquez analyzes a wealth of texts produced by Spaniards as well as by Africans and Afro-Spaniards from the early nineteenth century forward. She illuminates the complexities and disorientations of Spanish identity and shows how its evolution has important implications for current debates not only in Spanish culture but also in other countries involved in negotiating a modern identity.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-07-15
Mått:156 x 235 x 35 mm
Vikt:875 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:456
Förlag:Yale University Press
ISBN:9780300125207

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Susan Martin-Márquez is associate professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and director, Cinema Studies Program, Rutgers University.

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"In this impressive and ambitious project, Susan Martin-Márquez highlights the historical, political, and cultural context in which Spanish identity has engaged with the debate about the precise nature of its ‘African legacy.’"—H. Rosi Song, Bryn Mawr College