Disorientations : Spanish colonialism in Africa and the performance of identity

Disorientations : Spanish colonialism in Africa and the performance of identity / Susan Martin-Márquez.

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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Main Author: Martin-Márquez, Susan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
National characteristics, Spanish > History.
HISTORY > World.
HISTORY > Europe > Spain & Portugal.
Civilization > African influences
Civilization > Islamic influences
Spanish colonies
National characteristics, Spanish
Spain > Civilization > African influences.
Spain > Civilization > Islamic influences.
Spain > Colonies > Africa.
Spain > Colonies.
Africa
Spain
History
dissertations.
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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