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.
Table of Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Benita Sampedro and Simon Doubleday
Chapter 1. Europe’s ‘Last’ Wall: Contiguity, Exchange and Heterotopia in Ceuta, the confluence of Spain and North Africa
Parvati Nair
Chapter 2. Migration, Gender, and Desire in Contemporary Spanish Cinema
Rosi Song
Chapter 3. State Narcissism: Racism, Neoimperialism, and Spanish Opposition to Multiculturalism (On Mikel Azurmendi)
Joseba Gabilondo
Chapter 4. Constructing Convivencia: Miquel Barceló, José Luis Guerín, and Spanish-African Solidarity
Susan Martín Márquez
Chapter 5. Galicia Beyond Galicia: A man dos paíños and the Ends of Territoriality
Cristina Moreiras-Menor
Chapter 6. Foreignness and Vengeance: On Rizal’s El Filibusterismo
Vicente Rafael
Chapter 7. Through the Eyes of Strangers: Building Nation and Political Legitimacy in Eighteenth-Century Spain
Alberto Medina
Chapter 8. On Imperial Archives and the Insular Vanishing Point. The Canary Islands in Viera y Clavijo’s Noticias
Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián
Chapter 9. Manso de Contreras’ Relación of the Tehuantepec Rebellion (1660–1661): Violence, Counter-Insurgency Prose and the Frontiers of Colonial Justice
David Rojinsky
Chapter 11. (The) Patria Besieged: Border-Crossing Paradoxes of National Identity in Cervantes’s Numancia
Michael Armstrong
Chapter 12. Border Crossing and Identity Consciousness in the Jews of Medieval Spain Mariano
Gómez Aranda
Chapter 13. Seven Theses Against Hispanism
Eduardo Subirats
Notes on contributors
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Simon Doubleday is Associate Professor of History at Hofstra University, and Executive Editor of the Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies. He is author of The Lara Family: Crown and Nobility in Medieval Spain (Harvard, 2001), and co-editor, with David Coleman, of In the Light of Medieval Spain. Islam, the West, and the Relevance of History (Palgrave, 2008). He is currently completing a post-empirical study of the thirteenth-century border-crossing Castilian courtesan María Pérez, “La Balteira.”
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