Border Interrogations: Questioning Spanish Frontiers

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Benita 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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Introduction
1
Ch 1Europes last wall
15
Ch 2Migration gende and desire in contemporary Spanish cinema
42
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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Benita Samperdro Vizcaya is Associate Professor of Colonial Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Hofstra University. Her research interests focus on issues of Spanish colonialism in both Africa and Latin America, specifically on processes of decolonization and postcolonial legacies. She has published extensively on empire, exile, colonial discourse and resistance, and most recently on topics relating to Equatorial Guinea, the only African state where Spanish remains the official language. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Spanish Colonialism, African Decolonizations, and the Politics of Place.

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