Border Interrogations: Questioning Spanish Frontiers

Benita Samperdro Vizcaya, Benita Sampedro, Simon R. Doubleday

Berghahn Books, 2008 - History - 267 pages

Under the current cartographies of globalism, where frontiers mutate, vacillate, and mark the contiguity of discourse, questioning the Spanish border seems a particularly urgent task. The volume engages a wide spectrum of ambivalent regions--subjects that currently are, or have been seen in the past, as spaces of negotiation and contestation. However, they converge in their perception of the "Spanish" nation-space as a historical and ideological construct that is perpetually going through transformations and reformations. This volume advocates the position that intellectual responsibility must lead us to engage openly in the issues underlying current social and political tensions.

Contents

• Contiguity Exchange and Heterotopia: 15
• Migration Gender and Desire in Contemporary: 42
• Racism Neoimperialism and Spanish: 65
• Miquel Barceló José Luis Guerin: 90
• A man dos paíños and the Ends: 105
• On Rizals El Filibusterismo: 120
• Building Nation and Political: 147
• Frontiers of Colonial Justice: 188
• BorderCrossing Paradoxes: 204
• Border Crossing and Identity Consciousness in the Jews: 228
• Seven Theses against Hispanism: 246
• List of Contributors: 260

About the author

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.

Simon Doubleday is Associate Professor of History at Hofstra University, and Executive Editor of the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies. He is author of The Lara Family: Crown and Nobility in Medieval Spain (Harvard, 2001), and co-editor, with David Coleman, of In the Light of Medieval Spain. Islam, the West, and the Relevance of History (Palgrave, 2008). He is currently completing a post-empirical study of the thirteenth-century border-crossing Castilian courtesan María Pérez, 'La Balteira.'

Bibliographic information

• Title: Border Interrogations: Questioning Spanish Frontiers; Berghahn Series; Volume 8 of Remapping cultural history
• Editors: Benita Samperdro Vizcaya, Benita Sampedro, Simon R. Doubleday
• Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2008
• ISBN: 1845454340, 9781845454340
• Length: 267 pages
• Subjects: History / Europe / Spain & Portugal; Political Science / General; Political Science / Globalization; Social Science / Emigration & Immigration; Social Science / Sociology / General