Memories of the Maghreb [electronic resource] : Transnational Identities in Spanish Cultural Production /
Campoy-Cubillo, Adolfo.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Colonial Memories in the Mass Market; 2 From Imperial to National Identity: Revisiting the Realist Tradition in Spanish Literature; 3 Haunted by Colonial Dreams: Contemporary Fiction on the Spanish Colonization of the Maghreb; Part I The Historical Novel and the Maghreb; Part II Diasporic Narratives: From the Maghreb to Sepharad; 4 Sephardic Identity and the Enlightenment's European Project; 5 A Plurilingual Memory: Representations of the Sephardim in Contemporary Spanish Literature
6 Antonio Muñoz Molina's Sefarad: A Monolingual Memory7 Iberianism and Its Discontents; 8 Daoudi's El diablo de Yudis: Identity as Performance; 9 Necessary Fictions: Building New Imagined Communities in Contemporary Catalonia; Part III Hispano-Saharawi Fraternity: Nomadic Desire and Imperial Nostalgia; 10 Western Sahara: The Last and Lasting Colonial Conflict in Africa; 11 Rhizome and Colonial Desire: Spain in Western Sahara; 12 Spanish Cultural Production on Western Sahara; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Europe—Politics and government.
Africa—Politics and government.
Literature   .
Africa—History.
History, Modern.
Cultural studies.
European Politics.
African Politics.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
African History.
Modern History.
Cultural Studies.