Unsettling colonialism : gender and race in the nineteenth century global Hispanic world Unsettling Colonialism illuminates the interplay of race and gender in a range of fin de siècle Spanish narratives of empire and colonialism including literary fictions travel narratives political treatises medical discourse and the visual arts across the global Hispanic world. By focusing on texts by and about women and foregrounding Spains pivotal role in the colonization of the Americas Africa and Asia this volume breaks new ground in Iberian literary and cultural studies while also significantly broadening the scope of recent debates in postcolonial feminist theory to account for the Spanish empire and its (former) colonies. Bringing together the work of nine scholars Unsettling Colonialism is organized into three sections: colonialism and womens migrations; race performance and colonial ideologies; and gender and colonialism in literary and political debates. Given its interdisciplinary approach and accessible style the book will appeal not only to specialists in nineteenth century Iberian and Latin American studies but also to a broader audience of scholars in gender cultural transatlantic transpacific postcolonial and empire studies The colonial politics of meteorology: the West African expedition of the Urquiola Sisters Benita Sampedro Vizcaya Eva Canel and the gender of Hispanism Lisa Surwillo Gender race and Spains colonial legacy in the Americas: representations of white slavery in Eugenio Floress Trata de blancas and Eduardo López Bagos Carne importada Akiko Tsuchiya A black woman called Blanca la Extranjera in Faustina Sáez de Melgars Los miserables (1862 63) Ana Mateos Colonial imaginings on the stage: blackface gender and the economics of empire in Spanish and Catalan popular theater Mar Soria Becoming useless: masculinity able bodiedness and empire in nineteenth century Spain Julia Chan From imperial boots to naked feet: Claríns views on Cuban freedom and female independence in La regenta Nuria Godón Dalagas and ilustrados: gender language and indigeneity in the Philippine colonies Joyce Tolliver The Spanish carceral archipelago: concepción arenal against penitentiary colonization Aurélie Vialette.