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Memories of the Maghreb This page intentionally left blank Memories of the Maghreb Transnational Identities in Spanish Cultural Production ADOLFO CAMPOY-CUBILLO MEMORIES OF THE MAGHREB Copyright © Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo, 2012. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2012 978-1-137-02814-3 All rights reserved. First published in 2012 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-43994-2 ISBN 978-1-137-02815-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137028150 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Campoy-Cubillo, Adolfo, 1970– Memories of the Maghreb : transnational identities in Spanish cultural production / Adolfo Campoy-Cubillo. pages cm Includes bibliographical references. 1. National characteristics, Spanish, in literature. 2. Literature and history—Spain—History—19th century 3. Literature and history—Spain—History—20th century. 4. Literature and society—Spain—History—19th century. 5. Literature and society—Spain—History—20th century. 6. Spanish literature—19th century—History and criticism. 7. Spanish literature—20th century—History and criticism. 8. Morocco (Spanish Zone)—In literature. 9. Africa, North—In literature. 10. Colonies in literautre. I. Title. PQ6073.N3C36 2012 860.9(cid:2)005—dc23 2012016688 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Imaging Systems (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: October 2012 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To Andrea, Marina, and Mario Ex Africa semper aliquid novi. —Pliny Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I The Historical Novel and the Maghreb 1 Colonial Memories in the Mass Market 17 2 From Imperial to National Identity: Revisiting the Realist Tradition in Spanish Literature 25 3 Haunted by Colonial Dreams: Contemporary Fiction on the Spanish Colonization of the Maghreb 35 Part II Diasporic Narratives: From the Maghreb to Sepharad 4 Sephardic Identity and the Enlightenment’s European Project 77 5 A Plurilingual Memory: Representations of the Sephardim in Contemporary Spanish Literature 83 6 Antonio Muñoz Molina’s Sefarad: A Monolingual Memory 103 7 Iberianism and Its Discontents 117 8 Daoudi’s El diablo de Yudis: Identity as Performance 129 9 Necessary Fictions: Building New Imagined Communities in Contemporary Catalonia 137 viii CONTENTS Part III Hispano-Saharawi Fraternity: Nomadic Desire and Imperial Nostalgia 10 Western Sahara: The Last and Lasting Colonial Conflict in Africa 153 11 Rhizome and Colonial Desire: Spain in Western Sahara 159 12 Spanish Cultural Production on Western Sahara 167 Conclusion 185 Notes 193 Bibliography 199 Index 215 Acknowledgments I wish to express my gratitude to Mario Santana, Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, and Joe Blackmore whose advice, constant support, and wit made this project possible. I am also grateful to Esther Bendahan, Marian Izaguirre, Mohammed Bouissef-Rekab, Larbi El-Harti, Mois Benarroch, and Ramón Mayrata for their willingness to answer my questions and generosity with their time. I want to thank José Luis Gómez Barceló from the Archivo General de Ceuta for his help and for the cover image for this book that he generously located for me in his personal archive. Finally, I want to thank Dean Tom Thuerer at the University of Chicago whose support made this and many more projects to come possible.
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