1st Edition
Twenty-First Century Arab and African Diasporas in Spain, Portugal and Latin America
This volume considers the Arabic and African diasporas through the underexplored Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Africans, and Mahjari (South American and Mexican authors of Arab descent) experiences in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. Utilizing both established and emerging approaches, the authors explore the ways in which individual writers and artists negotiate the geographical, cultural, and historical parameters of their own diasporic trajectories influenced by their particular locations at home and elsewhere. At the same time, this volume sheds light on issues related to Spain, Portugal, and Latin American racial, ethnic, and sexual boundaries; the appeal of images of the Middle East and Africa in the contemporary marketplace; and the role of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American economic crunches in shaping attitudes towards immigration. This collection of thought-provoking chapters extends the concepts of diaspora and transnationalism, forcing the reader to reassess their present limitations as interpretive tools. In the process, Afro-Hispanic, Afro-Portuguese, and Mahjaris are rendered visible as national actors and transnational citizens.
Introduction
Cristián H. Ricci
PART I. SPAIN
1 Integration, School, and the Children of North African Immigrants in Spain
Daniela Flesler
2 Finding and Recording the Invisible: The Porteadoras of the Spanish-Moroccan Border in Documentary Film
Raquel Vega-Durán
3 Saharaui Women Writers in Spain: Voices of Resistance in Mil y un poemas saharauis II [One Thousand and One Saharaui Poems II]
Debra Faszer-McMahon
4 Sex, Identity, and Narration in the Equatoguinean Diaspora
Mahan L. Ellison
5 Mothering, Mestizaje and the Future of Spain
Anna Tybinko
PART II. PORTUGAL
6 Black Migration, Citizenship, and Racial Capital in Post-Imperial Portugal
Daniel F. Silva
7 We Are Not Your Negroes: Analyzing Mural Representations of Blackness in Lisbon Metropolitan Area
Margarida Rendeiro
8 Reclaiming an Individual Space: The Angolan Diaspora in Portugal
Sandra Sousa
9 Luso-Arabic Poetry: Reviewing the Concept
Catarina Nunes de Almeida
10 Portugal Against the Moors in the 21st Century: Invisible Diasporas and the "Mediatic Romanticism" of a Contemporary Opera
Everton V. Machado
PART III. LATIN AMERICA
11 Chilestinians and Journalism
Heba El Attar
12 Writing South, Facing East: Arab Argentine Narratives
Marcus Palmer
13 Chronicling "the Death of the Arab" in Colombian Literature
Angela Haddad
14 The Otherness That Remains. The Past From The Future: Cuaderno de Chihuahua [Chihuahua Notebook] by Jeannette Lozano Clariond
Rose Mary Salum
The Idea of Translation in Ancient Tillage, by Raduan Nassar
Nazir Ahmed Can
Biography
Cristián H. Ricci is a professor of Iberian studies and North African studies at the University of California, Merced. His literary research interests and experience include the narrative of Spain, the literature of Morocco written in Western European languages (Castilian, Catalan, French, Dutch, English), and the literatures of Equatorial Guinea and Latin America from 1800 through the present. He is the author of El espacio urbano en la narrativa del Madrid de la Edad de Plata, 1900-1938 (2009), Literatura periférica en castellano y catalán: el caso marroquí (2010), ¡Hay moros en la costa! Literatura marroquí fronteriza en castellano y catalán (2014), and New Voices of Muslim North African Migrants in Europe (2019). He is the codirector of Transmodernity. Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World.