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Disorientations|Susan Martin-Márquez

Disorientations : Spanish Colonialism in Africa and the Performance of Identity

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This book explores from a new perspective the fraught processes of Spaniards' efforts to formulate a national identity, from the Enlightenment to the present day. Focusing on the nation's Islamic-African legacy, Susan Martin-M rquez disputes received wisdom that Spain has consistently rejected its historical relationship to Muslims and Africans. Instead, she argues, Spaniards have sometimes denied and sometimes embraced this legacy, and that vacillation has served to destabilize presumably fixed borders between Europe and the Muslim world and between Europe and Africa.

Martin-M rquez analyzes a wealth of texts produced by Spaniards as well as by Africans and Afro-Spaniards from the early nineteenth century forward. She illuminates the complexities and disorientations of Spanish identity and shows how its evolution has important implications for current debates not only in Spanish culture but also in other countries involved in negotiating a modern identity.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780300125207
  • ISBN-10: 0300125208
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Publish Date: June 2008
  • Dimensions: 9.47 x 6.4 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.71 pounds
  • Page Count: 456

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