Title Memories of the Maghreb : transnational identities in Spanish cultural production / Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo

Edition 1st ed Published New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages) : illustrations Contents 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 Munoz 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 Summary 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 "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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject National characteristics, Spanish, in literature. Literature and history -- Spain -- History -- 19th century Literature and history -- Spain -- History -- 20th century Literature and society -- Spain -- History -- 19th century Literature and society -- Spain -- History -- 20th century Spanish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Spanish literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Colonies in literautre POLITICAL SCIENCE -- History & Theory. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Nationalism. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- Spanish & Portuguese. Literature Literature and history Literature and society National characteristics, Spanish, in literature Spanish literature SUBJECT Morocco (Spanish zone) -- In literature Africa, North -- In literature Subject North Africa Morocco -- Morocco (Spanish zone) Spain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781137028150 1137028157 9781137028143 1137028149 9781349439942 1349439940

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