Memories of the Maghreb

Using a cultural studies approach, this book explores how the Spanish colonization of North Africa continues to haunt Spain's efforts to articulate a national identity that can accommodate both the country's diversity, brought about by immigration from its old colonies, and the postnational demands of its integration in the European Union.

"Memories of the Maghreb moves seemingly effortlessly from the nineteenth to the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from canonical to (currently) non-canonical texts, from Morocco and the Saharawi of the Maghreb to Spain (and back), and from Spain to the rest of Europe and even to Cuba. This is an intelligent and very rich work that initiates a long-awaited conversation on the Spanish colonial presence in the Maghreb."

Ellen Mayock, Ernest Williams II Professor of Spanish, Washington and Lee University

Autorentext
Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo is an assistant professor of Spanish at Oakland University.

Inhalt
PART I: THE HISTORICAL NOVEL AND THE MAGHREB Colonial Memories in the Mass Market From Imperial to National Identity: Revisiting the Realist Tradition in Spanish Literature Haunted by Colonial Dreams: Contemporary Fiction on the Spanish Colonization of the Maghreb PART II: DIASPORIC NARRATIVES: FROM THE MAGHREB TO THE SEPHARAD Sephardic Identity and the Enlightenment's European Project A Plurilingual Memory: Representations of the Sephardim in Contemporary Spanish Literature Antonio Muñoz Molina's Sefarad: A Monolingual Memory Iberianism and its Discontents Daoudi's El diablo de Yudis: Identity as Performance Necessary Fictions: Building New Imagined Communities in Contemporary Catalonia PART III: HISPANO-SAHARAWI FRATERNITY: NOMADIC DESIRE AND IMPERIAL NOSTALGIA Western Sahara: The Last and Lasting Colonial Conflict in Africa Rhizome and Colonial Desire: Spain in Western Sahara Spanish Cultural Production on Western Sahara