Colonial al-Andalus : Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture / Eric Calderwood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calderwood, Eric, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, Moroccan.

Morocco--Civilization.

Morocco.

Andalusia (Spain)--Civilization--Islamic influences.

Andalusia (Spain).

Morocco--Foreign relations--Spain.

Spain--Colonies--Africa.

Spain.

Spain--Foreign relations--Morocco.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Through state-backed Catholicism, monolingualism, militarism, and dictatorship, Spain's fascists earned their reputation for intolerance. It may therefore come as a surprise that 80,000 Moroccans fought at General Franco's side in the 1930s. What brought these strange bedfellows together was an effective propaganda weapon: the legacy of medieval Muslim Iberia, known as al-Andalus. This legacy served to justify Spain's colonization of Morocco and define the Moroccan national culture that supplanted colonial rule. Many writers have celebrated convivencia, the fabled "coexistence" of Christians, Muslims, and Jews in medieval Iberia. According to this widely-held view, modern Spain and Morocco are joined through their shared Andalusi past. Colonial al-Andalus traces this supposedly timeless narrative to the mid-1800s, when Spanish politicians and intellectuals first used it to press for Morocco's colonization. Franco later harnessed convivencia to the benefit of Spain's colonial program in Morocco. This shift precipitated an eloquent historical irony. As Moroccans embraced the Spanish insistence on Morocco's Andalusi heritage, a Spanish idea about Morocco gradually became a Moroccan idea about Morocco. Drawing on a rich archive of Spanish, Arabic, French, and Catalan sources--including literature, historiography, journalism, political speeches, schoolbooks, tourist brochures, and visual arts--Calderwood reconstructs the varied political career of convivencia and al-Andalus, showing how shared pasts become raw material for divergent contemporary ideologies, including Spanish fascism and Moroccan nationalism. Colonial al-Andalus exposes the limits of simplistic oppositions between European and Arab, Christian and Muslim, that shape current debates about European colonialism.-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Note on transliteration

Introduction

Tetouan is Granada

Al-Andalus and Moroccan Literary History

Al-Andalus, Andalucía, and Morocco

Franco’s Hajj

The Invention of Hispano-Arab Culture

Moroccan Alhambras

The Daughter of Granada and Fez

Epilogue: The Afterlife of Colonial Al-Andalus in Contemporary Morocco

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Aug 2018)

ISBN:

9780674985797

0674985796

9780674985810

0674985818

OCLC:

1030578481