Border Interrogations

Benita Samperdro Vizcaya is Associate Professor of Colonial Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Hofstra University. Her research interests focus on issues of Spanish colonialism in both Africa and Latin America, specifically on processes of decolonization and postcolonial legacies. She has published extensively on empire, exile, colonial discourse and resistance, and most recently on topics relating to Equatorial Guinea, the only African state where Spanish remains the official language. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled Spanish Colonialism, African Decolonizations, and the Politics of Place.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionBenita Sampedro and Simon Doubleday Chapter 1. Europe’s ‘Last’ Wall: Contiguity, Exchange and Heterotopia in Ceuta, the confluence of Spain and North AfricaParvati NairChapter 2. Migration, Gender, and Desire in Contemporary Spanish CinemaRosi SongChapter 3. State Narcissism: Racism, Neoimperialism, and Spanish Opposition to Multiculturalism (On Mikel Azurmendi)Joseba GabilondoChapter 4. Constructing Convivencia: Miquel Barceló, José Luis Guerín, and Spanish-African SolidaritySusan Martín MárquezChapter 5. Galicia Beyond Galicia: A man dos paíños and the Ends of TerritorialityCristina Moreiras-MenorChapter 6. Foreignness and Vengeance: On Rizal's El FilibusterismoVicente RafaelChapter 7. Through the Eyes of Strangers: Building Nation and Political Legitimacy in Eighteenth-Century SpainAlberto MedinaChapter 8. On Imperial Archives and the Insular Vanishing Point. The Canary Islands in Viera y Clavijo’s NoticiasFrancisco-J. Hernández AdriánChapter 9. Manso de Contreras’ Relación of the Tehuantepec Rebellion (1660–1661): Violence, Counter-Insurgency Prose and the Frontiers of Colonial JusticeDavid RojinskyChapter 11. (The) Patria Besieged: Border-Crossing Paradoxes of National Identity in Cervantes’s NumanciaMichael ArmstrongChapter 12. Border Crossing and Identity Consciousness in the Jews of Medieval Spain MarianoGómez ArandaChapter 13. Seven Theses Against HispanismEduardo SubiratsNotes on contributorsBibliographyIndex

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