Africa in the Contemporary Spanish Novel, 1990–2010

Mahan L. Ellison (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

212 Seiten

2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-0742-3 (ISBN)

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The time period of 1990-2010 marks a significant moment in Spanish literary publishing that emphasized a new focus on Africa and African voices and signaled the beginning of a publishing boom of Hispano-African authors and themes. Africa in the Contemporary Spanish Novel, 1990-2010 analyzes the strategies that Spanish and Hispano-African authors employ when writing about Africa in the contemporary Spanish novel. Focusing on the former Spanish colonial territories of Morocco, Western Sahara, and Equatorial Guinea, Mahan L. Ellison analyzes the post-colonial literary discourse about these regions at the turn of the twenty-first century. He examines the new ways of conceptualizing Africa that depart from an Orientalist framework as advanced by novelists such as Lorenzo Silva, Concha López Sarasúa, Ramón Mayrata, and others. Throughout, Ellison also places the novels within their historical context, specifically engaging with the theoretical ideas of Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978), to determine to what extent his analysis of Orientalist discourse still holds value for a study of the Spanish novel of thirty years later.

Mahan L. Ellison is associate professor of Spanish at Bridgewater College.

Introduction

Chapter 1: War, Diplomacy, Decolonization, and the Other

Chapter 2: Gender and the Other

Chapter 3: Travel and the Other

Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	06.08.2021
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 228 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-7936-0742-7 / 1793607427
ISBN-13	978-1-7936-0742-3 / 9781793607423
Zustand	Neuware