Border Interrogations: Questioning Spanish FrontiersBenita Samperdro Vizcaya, Simon Doubleday Berghahn Books, 2008 M05 1 - 278 páginas Under the current cartographies of globalism, where frontiers mutate, vacillate, and mark the contiguity of discourse, questioning the Spanish border seems a particularly urgent task. The volume engages a wide spectrum of ambivalent regions—subjects that currently are, or have been seen in the past, as spaces of negotiation and contestation. However, they converge in their perception of the “Spanish” nation-space as a historical and ideological construct that is perpetually going through transformations and reformations. This volume advocates the position that intellectual responsibility must lead us to engage openly in the issues underlying current social and political tensions. |
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... Melilla hang odd shoes and torn gloves, the ragged vestiges of an attempt by hundreds of sub-Saharan migrants to scale the walls of Fortress Europe. Many, but not all, have made it across into the legal limbo of this North African ...
... Melilla cut deeply because they give torturously physical form to an accumulation of mutually reinforcing frontiers—political, legal, economic, religious, and, often but not exclusively, or even primarily, geographical. At the outset ...
... Melilla is unchallenged today by even the most progressive Spanish political parties. The hegemonic form of patriotism, she states, “implies allegiance to an enclosed and static vision of Spain and her borders.” In fact, adhesion to a ...
... Melilla in terms of either the First or Third World will inevitably fail: they are neither one nor the other, nor indeed the sum of their different parts. Instead, these frontier towns inhabit the ambivalence of the borderline, a ...
... Melilla: they have the dual function of serving the nation they adhere to and, paradoxically, affirming the very continent they are geographically disconnected from. By consequence, they become the nerve centers where Europeanness is ...
Contenido
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Ch 3State narcissism | 65 |
Ch 4Constructing convivencia | 90 |
Ch 5Galicia beyond galicia | 105 |
Ch 6Foreignness and vengeance | 120 |
Ch 7Through the eyes of strangers | 147 |
Ch 8On imperial archives and the insular vanishing point | 165 |
Ch 9Manso de contreras relacion of the tehuantepec rebellion | 188 |
Ch 10The Patria besieged | 204 |
Ch 11Border crossing and identity consciousness in the Jews of medieval Spain | 228 |
Ch 12Seven these against Hispanism | 246 |
Notes on contributors | 260 |
Index | 264 |
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Border Interrogations: Questioning Spanish Frontiers Benita Sampedro,Simon R. Doubleday Vista previa limitada - 2008 |
Border Interrogations: Questioning Spanish Frontiers Benita Sampedro Vizcaya,Simon Doubleday Sin vista previa disponible - 2011 |
Border Interrogations: Questioning Spanish Frontiers Benita Samperdro Vizcaya Sin vista previa disponible - 2013 |