Border Interrogations: Questioning Spanish Frontiers

Benita Samperdro Vizcaya, Simon Doubleday

Berghahn Books, May 1, 2008 - Social Science - 278 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

• Introduction: 1
• Ch 1Europes last wall: 15
• Ch 2Migration gende and desire in contemporary Spanish cinema: 42
• Ch 3State narcissism: 65
• Ch 4Constructing convivencia: 90
• Ch 5Galicia beyond galicia: 105
• Ch 6Foreignness and vengeance: 120
• Ch 7Through the eyes of strangers: 147
• Ch 8On imperial archives and the insular vanishing point: 165
• Ch 9Manso de contreras relacion of the tehuantepec rebellion: 188
• Ch 10The Patria besieged: 204
• Ch 11Border crossing and identity consciousness in the Jews of medieval Spain: 228
• Ch 12Seven these against Hispanism: 246
• Notes on contributors: 260
• Index: 264

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Border Interrogations: Questioning Spanish Frontiers; Volume 8 of Remapping Cultural History
• Editors: Benita Samperdro Vizcaya, Simon Doubleday
• Edition: revised
• Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2008
• ISBN: 0857450352, 9780857450357
• Length: 278 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / General; Social Science / Emigration & Immigration; Social Science / Sociology / General