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African Immigrants in Contemporary Spanish Texts
Around the turn of 21st Century, Spain welcomed more than six million foreigners, many of them from various parts of the African continent. How African immigrants represent themselves and are represented in contemporary Spanish texts is the subject of this interdisciplinary collection. Analyzing blogs, films, translations, and literary works by contemporary authors including Donato Ndongo (Ecquatorial Guinea), Abderrahman El Fathi (Morocco), Chus Gutiérrez (Spain), Juan Bonilla (Spain), and Bahia Mahmud Awah (Western Sahara), the contributors interrogate how Spanish cultural texts represent, idealize, or sympathize with the plight of immigrants, as well as the ways in which immigrants themselves represent Spain and Spanish culture. At the same time, these works shed light on issues related to Spain’s racial, ethnic, and sexual boundaries; the appeal of images of Africa in the contemporary marketplace; and the role of Spain’s economic crisis in shaping attitudes towards immigration. Taken together, the essays are a convincing reminder that cultural texts provide a mirror into the perceptions of a society during times of change.
Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four
In this fourth volume of the landmark Poems for the Millennium series, Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour present a comprehensive anthology of the written and oral literatures of the Maghreb, the region of North Africa that spans the modern nation states of Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania, and including a section on the influential Arabo-Berber and Jewish literary culture of Al-Andalus, which flourished in Spain between the ninth and fifteenth centuries. Beginning with the earliest pictograms and rock drawings and ending with the work of the current generation of post-independence and diasporic writers, this volume takes in a range of cultures and voices, including Berber, Phoen...
The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions
The Oxford Handbook of Arab Novelistic Traditions encompasses the genesis of the Arabic novel in the second half of the nineteenth century and its development to the present in every Arab country, as well as Arab immigrant writing in many languages around the world.
Africa in the Contemporary Spanish Novel, 1990–2010
The time period of 1990-2010 marks a significant moment in Spanish literary publishing that emphasized a new focus on Africa and African voices and signaled the beginning of a publishing boom of Hispano-African authors and themes. Africa in the Contemporary Spanish Novel, 1990-2010 analyzes the strategies that Spanish and Hispano-African authors employ when writing about Africa in the contemporary Spanish novel. Focusing on the former Spanish colonial territories of Morocco, Western Sahara, and Equatorial Guinea, Mahan L. Ellison analyzes the post-colonial literary discourse about these regions at the turn of the twenty-first century. Heexamines the new ways of conceptualizing Africa that depart from an Orientalist framework as advanced by novelists such as Lorenzo Silva, Concha López Sarasúa, Ramón Mayrata, and others. Throughout, Ellison also places the novels within their historical context, specifically engaging with the theoretical ideas of Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978), to determine to what extent his analysis of Orientalist discourse still holds value for a study of the Spanish novel of thirty years later.
El porvenir del español en el Sahara Occidental
Este estudio sobre la situaci?3n del espa?±ol y la literatura saharaui en este idioma, es un punto y seguido para dar a conocer la historia y realidad actual de la lengua de Cervantes en la antigua provincia espa?±ola. El idioma espa?±ol se extiende hoy por todo el planeta; es la segunda lengua m?¡s importante del mundo y la tercera m?¡s hablada. Hace m?¡s de un siglo lleg?3 al Sahara Occidental. All? engendr?3 ra?ces, asent?3 bases de convivencia y dej?3 un indestructible legado para el pueblo saharaui. Desde aquella primera generaci?3n de universitarios en los a?±os 70 hasta la actual Generaci?3n de la Amistad, este libro nos acerca adem?¡s a una literatura singular en espa?±ol pero de fuerte ra?z saharaui, una literatura heterog?©nea.
Twenty-First Century Arab and African Diasporas in Spain, Portugal and Latin America
This volume considers the Arabic and African diasporas through the underexplored Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Africans, and Mahjari (South American and Mexican authors of Arab descent) experiences in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. Utilizing both established and emerging approaches, the authors explore the ways in which individual writers and artists negotiate the geographical, cultural, and historical parameters of their own diasporic trajectories influenced by their particular locations at home and elsewhere. At the same time, this volume sheds light on issues related to Spain, Portugal, and Latin American racial, ethnic, and sexual boundaries; the appeal of images of the Middle East and Africa in the contemporary marketplace; and the role of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American economic crunches in shaping attitudes towards immigration. This collection of thought-provoking chapters extends the concepts of diaspora and transnationalism, forcing the reader to reassess their present limitations as interpretive tools. In the process, Afro-Hispanic, Afro-Portuguese, and Mahjaris are rendered visible as national actors and transnational citizens.
Convergències artístiques i textuals africanes a l'entorn de la Mediterrània
Aques llibre presenta una selecció d'articles referits a la realitat africana, enfocats des de disciplines diverses -literatura, pintura, cinema- i des de punts de vista diferents, tant el que es dedueix del món occidental com el proposat pels mateixos africans. El volum busca reflectir i reflexionar sobre aquesta parcel·la de l'alteritat amb l'objecte de reescriure la pròpia societat amb una perspectiva més global i integradora.
La literatura africana en castellano de los antiguos territorios españoles del Sahara Occidental y de Marruecos
Aunque el español es uno de los idiomas oficiales en el Sahara Occidental, la literatura saharaui y marroquí en español ha sido poco conocida. Alain Lawo-Sukam abre con este libro una nueva ventana al mundo literario africano-hispano, ampliando así el conocimiento de la literatura hispanófona en África. La persistencia del español en las comunidades saharauis no solo responde a la herencia colonial, sino al deseo de fomentar una identidad heterogénea -la del único país árabe que "habla, piensa y sueña, y se siente en español" -y, por lo tanto, de encontrar en el idioma una forma de desmarcarse de la francofonización y resistir frente a los ocupantes de su territorio, el de la R...
Trans-afrohispanismos
Trans-afrohispanismos: puentes culturales críticos entre África, Latinoamérica y España is an innovative approach to Afro-Hispanic Studies. It focuses on the connections between peoples, territories, and media of expression at the confluence of Africa and the Hispanic world. The volume’s contributors apply perspectives from their respective areas of specialization to their examination of transcultural interactions in a diverse range of contexts. These include Equatorial Guinea, Western Sahara, Spain, Morocco, Afro-descendant communities in Latin America and transnational spaces generated by digital technologies and contemporary migration. The volume offers an expanded understanding of ...
