Unsettling Colonialism: Gender and Race in the Nineteenth-Century Global Hispanic World

304 Pages·2019·3.063 MB·English

by  N. Michelle Murray (editor), Akiko Tsuchiya (editor)

UNSETTLING
COLONIALISM
SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
——————
Jorge J. E. Gracia and Rosemary G. Feal, editors
UNSETTLING
COLONIALISM
Gender and Race in the
Nineteenth-Century Global Hispanic World
Edited by
N. Michelle Murray and Akiko Tsuchiya
Cover art: José Tapiró Y Baró, A Tangerian Beauty. Dahesh Museum of Art,
New York. 1995.117
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Murray, N. Michelle, editor. | Tsuchiya, Akiko, editor.
Title: Unsettling colonialism : gender and race in the nineteenth-century
global Hispanic world / edited by N. Michelle Murray and Akiko Tsuchiya.
Description: Albany : State University of New York, [2019] | Series: SUNY
series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018056830 | ISBN 9781438476452 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9781438476476 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Spanish literature—19th century—History and criticism. |
Imperialism in literature. | Race in literature. | Gender identity in literature. | Sex
in literature.
Classification: LCC PQ6072 .U64 2019 | DDC 860.9/005—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018056830
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
I. Colonialism and Women’s Migrations
1. The Colonial Politics of Meteorology: The West African
Expedition of the Urquiola Sisters 19
Benita Sampedro Vizcaya
2. Eva Canel and the Gender of Hispanism 55
Lisa Surwillo
3. Gender, Race, and Spain’s Colonial Legacy in the Americas:
Representations of White Slavery in Eugenio Flores’s
Trata de blancas and Eduardo López Bago’s Carne importada 81
Akiko Tsuchiya
II. Race, Performance, and Colonial Ideologies
4. A Black Woman Called Blanca la extranjera in Faustina Sáez
de Melgar’s Los miserables (1862–63) 107
Ana Mateos
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5. Colonial Imaginings on the Stage: Blackface, Gender, and the
Economics of Empire in Spanish and Catalan Popular Theater 135
Mar Soria
III. Gender and Colonialism in
Literary and Political Debates
6. Becoming Useless: Masculinity, Able-Bodiedness, and Empire
in Nineteenth-Century Spain 173
Julia Chang
7. From Imperial Boots to Naked Feet: Clarín’s Views on
Cuban Freedom and Female Independence in La Regenta 203
Nuria Godón
8. Dalagas and Ilustrados: Gender, Language, and Indigeneity
in the Philippine Colonies 231
Joyce Tolliver
9. The Spanish Carceral Archipelago: Concepción Arenal
against Penitentiary Colonization 255
Aurélie Vialette
Contributors 279
Index 283
Illustrations
Figure 1.1 Sebastiana Estala at the center, surrounded by her
four children; from left to right, Manuela, Esteban,
Juliana, and Isabel Urquiola Estala, in Vitoria, Spain. 22
Figure 1.2 Postcard sent from the colonial city of Santa Isabel
in Fernando Poo to Seville in 1955. 26
Figure 1.3 Postal stamps commemorating the centenary of the
birth of Manuel Iradier, on the first day of circulation. 26
Figure 1.4 Manuel Iradier Bulfy, photograph taken upon his
return from the second expedition to Africa. 27
Figure 1.5 Petition to the governor by Manuel Iradier Bulfy,
Fernando Poo, January 1, 1877. “Instancia de Manuel
Iradier y Bulfy. Fernando Poo, 1 de enero, 1877.” 32–33
Figure 1.6 Petition to the governor by Isabel Urquiola de Iradier,
Fernando Poo, October 16, 1876. “Instancia de Isabel
Urquiola de Iradier. Fernando Poo, 16 de octubre
de 1876.” 36–38
Figures 1.7 Unpublished diary of Manuel Iradier Urquiola. This
and 1.8 five-page-long diary has been reproduced in the DVD
that accompanies Gutiérrez Garitano’s Apuntes de
la Guinea. 43
Figure 6.1 O’Donnell junto a las tropas de la Campaña de África
pasando por la Puerta del Sol en 1860 (O’Donnell with
troops from the African campaign passing through
Puerta del Sol in 1860). 190
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Acknowledgments
This project is the fruit of collaboration among a group of specialists on
nineteenth-century Iberian studies, who have been meeting over the past
few years to exchange ideas and share works in progress on the intersections
of gender and empire in the nineteenth-century Iberian world. We would
like to acknowledge each and every member of our research group for their
contributions to this project, for their collegiality and support.
Michelle would like to thank her colleagues in the Department of
Spanish and Portuguese at Vanderbilt University who encouraged her while
she worked on the project, especially Andrés Zamora, who generously
shared his expertise in nineteenth-century Spanish studies. She is also
thankful for Jeffrey Coleman, Ana Corbalán, Elena Delgado, Kathy Everly,
Jessica Folkart, Jo Labanyi, Jill Robbins, Rosi Song, Akiko Tsuchiya, and
the members of her writing group for giving her ideas and feedback as she
edited the volume. She is most grateful for Joshua Murray’s daily insights,
inspiration, and support.
Akiko would like to thank the many colleagues in the field, who
have inspired her through intellectual dialogue, assisted her in locating
research materials, and made invaluable suggestions along the way, as this
project took life. She is especially grateful to Billy Acree, Pura Fernández,
Michelle Murray, Íñigo Sánchez-Llama, the late Chris Schmidt-Nowara,
Elzbieta Sklodowska, Lisa Surwillo, Joyce Tolliver, and Aurélie Vialette for
the conversations and for their advice during various stages of the project.
We thank Rebecca Colesworthy, Acquisitions Editor at SUNY Press,
for having faith in the project and for her unflagging support throughout the
editorial process. Finally, we are very grateful to the two anonymous review-
ers of the press, whose suggestions helped to improve the final manuscript.
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