Africa in the Contemporary Spanish Novel, 1990-2010

Africa in the Contemporary Spanish Novel, 1990-2010

Hardback (19 Aug 2021)

Save $2.44

  • RRP $104.01
  • $101.57
Add to basket

Includes delivery to the United States

10+ copies available online - Usually dispatched within 7 days

Publisher's Synopsis

The time period of 1990-2010 marks a significant moment in Spanish literary publishing that emphasized a new focus on Africa and African voices and signaled the beginning of a publishing boom of Hispano-African authors and themes. Africa in the Contemporary Spanish Novel, 1990-2010 analyzes the strategies that Spanish and Hispano-African authors employ when writing about Africa in the contemporary Spanish novel. Focusing on the former Spanish colonial territories of Morocco, Western Sahara, and Equatorial Guinea, Mahan L. Ellison analyzes the post-colonial literary discourse about these regions at the turn of the twenty-first century. He examines the new ways of conceptualizing Africa that depart from an Orientalist framework as advanced by novelists such as Lorenzo Silva, Concha López Sarasúa, Ramón Mayrata, and others. Throughout, Ellison also places the novels within their historical context, specifically engaging with the theoretical ideas of Edward Said's Orientalism (1978), to determine to what extent his analysis of Orientalist discourse still holds value for a study of the Spanish novel of thirty years later.

Book information

ISBN: 9781793607423
Publisher: Lexington Books
Imprint: Lexington Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 863.64093586
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: x, 201
Weight: 499g
Height: 228mm
Width: 161mm
Spine width: 23mm