The Return of Moor

by Flesler, Daniela

• ISBN13: 9781557534835
• ISBN10: 1557534837
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-01
• Publisher: Purdue Univ Pr

Summary

With the intense economic development and accelerated modernization experienced by Spain since the 1970s, and especially following its entrance into the European Economic Community in 1986, the country has undergone a rapid inversion in migratory patterns. After being an exporter of economic migrants for almost a century, in the last twenty years Spain has seen itself on the receiving end of immigration. Coinciding with a time when Spain is highlighting its belonging to Europe, the growing presence of Moroccan immigrants in particular confronts Spanish society with the repressed non-European-African and Oriental-aspects of its national identity.

Author Biography

Daniela Flesler (Ph.D., Tulane University, 2001) is assistant professor of Hispanic Languages and Literature at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. She specializes in Contemporary Spanish Peninsular Cultural Studies, with a focus on issues of transnationalism and the construction of national identities.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction: European Immigration, New Racism, and the Case of Spain	p. 1
Difference Within and Without: Negotiating European, National, and Regional Identities in Spain	p. 17
Ghostly Returns: The "Loss" of Spain, the Invading "Moor," and the Contemporary Moroccan Immigrant	p. 55
Playing Guest and Host: Moors and Christians, Moroccans and Spaniards in Historical Novels and Festive Reenactments	p. 97
Impossible Love: The Presumed Incompatibility of Islam and (European) Spain	p. 131
Testimonies of Immigrant Life: Fact, Fiction, and the Ethnographic Performance	p. 163
Conclusion: Confronting Ghosts	p. 195
Notes	p. 199
Works Cited	p. 219
Index	p. 239
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