Border Interrogations Questioning Spanish Frontiers [Paperback]

Under the current cartographies of globalism, where frontiers mutate, vacillate, and mark the contiguity of discourse, questioning the Spanish border seems a particularly urgent task. The volume engages a wide spectrum of ambivalent regionssubjects that currently are, or have been seen in the past, as spaces of negotiation and contestation. However, they converge in their perception of the Spanish nation-space as a historical and ideological construct that is perpetually going through transformations and reformations. This volume advocates the position that intellectual responsibility must lead us to engage openly in the issues underlying current social and political tensions.

Benita Samperdro Vizcayais Associate Professor of Colonial Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at Hofstra University. Her research interests focus on issues of Spanish colonialism in both Africa and Latin America, specifically on processes of decolonization and postcolonial legacies. She has published extensively on empire, exile, colonial discourse and resistance, and most recently on topics relating to Equatorial Guinea, the only African state where Spanish remains the official language. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitledSpanish Colonialism, African Decolonizations, and the Politics of Place.

Simon Doubledayis Associate Professor of History at Hofstra University, and Executive Editor of theJournal of Medieval Iberian Studies. He is author ofThe Lara Family: Crown and Nobility in Medieval Spain(Harvard, 2001), and co-editor, with David Coleman, ofIn the Light of Medieval Spain. Islam, the West, and the Relevance of History(Palgrave, 2008). He is currently completing a post-empirical study of the thirteenth-century border-crossing Castilian courtesan Mar?a P?rez, La Balteira.

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Introduction
Benita SampedroandSimon Doubleday

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