Disorientations: Spanish Colonialism in Africa and the Performance of Identity
Susan Martin-Marquez
Abstract
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, the book disputes received wisdom that Spain has consistently rejected its historical relationship to Muslims and Africans. Instead, it 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. The book analyzes a wealth of texts p ... More
Keywords: national identity, Enlightenment, Spain, Muslims, Africans, Europe, Spanish identity, Spanish culture, modern identity
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2008 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300125207 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300125207.001.0001 |
