Disorientations : Spanish colonialism in Africa and the performance of identity /
Exploring the fraught processes of Spaniards' efforts to formulate a national identity - from the Enlightenment to the present - this book focuses on the nation's Islamic-African legacy, disputing the received wisdom that Spain has consistently rejected its historical relationship to Musli...
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2008.
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Taula de continguts:
- Introduction: Theorizing the performance of Spanish identity
- Power plays : reformulations of Spanish identity and the colonization of Africa
- The "savage" art of mimicry in Spain's colonization of sub-Saharan Africa
- Staging the Odalisque's conquest in the Spanish-Moroccan War (1859-60)
- The masculine role in the Spanish-Moroccan theater of war
- Unmasking family values in Franco's African colonies
- Performance anxieties on the edge of fortress Europe. Afterword.