Local Versions and the Global Impacts of Euro-African Memories: A Revision through Spanish Colonial Imprints. Introduction

This dossier aims to analyse Spanish imprints in Euro-African identities and memories in both oral and written sources from a postcolonial perspective. “Memories” are understood as individual and collective narratives able to shape national, ethnic and cultural identities. Our objective is to revers...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Aixelà-Cabré, Yolanda
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/228022
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/228022
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Colonial otherness
Euro-African identities
Spanish imprints
Ethnic identities
Cultural identities
Identity hybridisation processes
Afro-Spanish interrelation
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Sumario:This dossier aims to analyse Spanish imprints in Euro-African identities and memories in both oral and written sources from a postcolonial perspective. “Memories” are understood as individual and collective narratives able to shape national, ethnic and cultural identities. Our objective is to reverse the constant subsuming of the Spanish experience into other European colonialisms in Africa. This subsidiary position has complicated the understanding of the identity hybridisation processes, both local and global, in the African countries colonised by Spain. Being subsumed by, for example, French or Portuguese colonialism has led to certain specificities becoming irrelevant and a number of mistaken equivalences. This lack of interest has clouded the study of certain highly interesting aspects of the Afro-Spanish interrelation, such as its similarities and differences with other Euro-African postcolonial legacies.