Memories of the Maghreb : Transnational Identities in Spanish Cultural Production

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 explores how the Spanish colonization of North Africa at the turn of the twentieth century 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. Campoy-Cubillo analyzes Spanish contemporary cultural production about the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco, following a cultural studies approach to describe the material conditions that contributed to the development of Spanish colonial discourse and its rearticulation in contemporary Spain Front Matter....Pages i-ix Introduction....Pages 1-13 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 Colonial Memories in the Mass Market....Pages 17-23 From Imperial to National Identity: Revisiting the Realist Tradition in Spanish Literature....Pages 25-34 Haunted by Colonial Dreams: Contemporary Fiction on the Spanish Colonization of the Maghreb....Pages 35-74 Front Matter....Pages 75-75 Sephardic Identity and the Enlightenment’s European Project....Pages 77-81 A Plurilingual Memory: Representations of the Sephardim in Contemporary Spanish Literature....Pages 83-102 Antonio Muñoz Molina’s Sefarad: A Monolingual Memory....Pages 103-115 Iberianism and Its Discontents....Pages 117-128 Daoudi’s El diablo de Yudis: Identity as Performance....Pages 129-136 Necessary Fictions: Building New Imagined Communities in Contemporary Catalonia....Pages 137-149 Front Matter....Pages 151-151 Western Sahara: The Last and Lasting Colonial Conflict in Africa....Pages 153-158 Rhizome and Colonial Desire: Spain in Western Sahara....Pages 159-166 Spanish Cultural Production on Western Sahara....Pages 167-184 Conclusion....Pages 185-191 Back Matter....Pages 193-219 "Memories of the Maghreb explores how the Spanish colonization of North Africa at the turn of the twentieth century 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. Campoy-Cubillo analyzes Spanish contemporary cultural production of the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco, following a cultural studies approach to describe the material conditions that contributed to the development of Spanish colonial discourse and its rearticulation in contemporary Spain"-- Provided by publisher