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Colonialist Gazes and Counternarratives of Blackness

Afro-Spanishness in 20th- and 21st-Century Spain
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Building on the growing field of Afropean Studies, this interdisciplinary and intermedial collection of essays proposes a dialogue on Afro-Spanishness that is not exclusively tied to immigration and that understands Blackness as a non-essentialist, heterogeneous and diasporic concept. Studying a variety of twentieth- and twenty-first-century cultural products, some essays explore the resilience of the colonialist paradigms and the circulation of racial ideologies and colonial memories that promote national narratives of whitening. Others focus on Black self-representation and examine how Afro-Spanish authors, artists, and activists destabilize colonial gazes and constructions of national identity, propose decolonial views of Spain and Europe’s literature and history, articulate Afro-Diasporic knowledges, and envision Afro-Descendance as an empowering tool.

Author Biography:

Ana Léon-Távora is Associate Professor of Spanish, Director of Modern Languages and Director of Race and Ethnicity Studies at Salem College, North Carolina. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters that examine issues of social and political power relations, racial, ethnic, and linguistic discrimination in Spain, and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies. She is also the co-editor and co-trranslator of the bilingual critical book and catalogue on contemporary Cuban art authored by Linda Howe, Cuban Artists’ Books and Prints. Libros y Grabados de Artistas Cubanos: 1998–2008 (2009). Rosalía Cornejo-Parriego is Professor of Hispanic Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. She is the author of Entre mujeres. Política de la amistad y el deseo en la narrativa española contemporánea (2008) and the editor of two collections of essays: Black USA and Spain. Shared Memories in the 20th Century (2021) and Memoria colonial e inmigración. La negritud en la España posfranquista (2008). In addition, she has co-edited the special issue of Romance Notes “The Rosalia Effect. Popular Music and Culture in Contemporary Spain” (with N. M. Murray, 2023) and Un hispanismo para el siglo XXI. Ensayos de crítica cultural (with A. Villamandos, 2011). As part of her research project on women intellectuals in the press during Spain’s Transition to democracy, she published Ana María Moix: Semblanzas e impertinencias (2016), an edition of Moix’s journalistic writings.
Release date Australia
June 24th, 2024
Contributors
  • Edited by Ana León-Távora
  • Edited by Rosalia Cornejo-Parriego
Pages
244
Audiences
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
2 Halftones, color; 17 Halftones, black and white; 2 Illustrations, color; 17 Illustrations, black and white
ISBN-13
9781032563497
Product ID
38431494

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