1st Edition

Twenty-First Century Arab and African Diasporas in Spain, Portugal and Latin America

Edited By Cristián H. Ricci Copyright 2023
266 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

266 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

266 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

 

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.