Disorientations : Spanish colonialism in Africa and the performance of identity / Susan Martin-Marquez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martin-Márquez, Susan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, Spanish--History.

National characteristics, Spanish.

Spain--Civilization--African influences.

Spain.

Spain--Civilization--Islamic influences.

Spain--Colonies--Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 445 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Theorizing the Performance of Spanish Identity

ONE. Power Plays: Reformulations of Spanish Identity and the Colonization of Africa

TWO. The "Savage" Art of Mimicry in Spain's Colonization of Sub-Saharan Africa

THREE. Staging the Odalisque's Conquest in the Spanish-Moroccan War (1859-60)

FOUR. The Masculine Role in the Spanish-Moroccan Theater of War

FIVE. Unmasking Family Values in Franco's African Colonies

SIX. Performance Anxieties on the Edge of Fortress Europe

Afterword

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-417) and index.

ISBN:

9786612351723

9781282351721

1282351729

9780300152524

0300152523

OCLC:

587497140