Table Of ContentTwenty-First Century Arab and
African Diasporas in Spain, Portugal
and Latin America
This volume considers the Arabic and African diasporas through the
underexplored Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Africans, and Mahjari (South
American and Mexican authors of Arab descent) experiences in Spain,
Portugal, and Latin America. Utilizing both established and emerging
approaches, the authors explore the ways in which individual writers and
artists negotiate the geographical, cultural, and historical parameters of
their own diasporic trajectories infuenced by their particular locations
at home and elsewhere. At the same time, this volume sheds light on
issues related to Spain, Portugal, and Latin American racial, ethnic, and
sexual boundaries; the appeal of images of the Middle East and Africa
in the contemporary marketplace; and the role of Spanish, Portuguese,
and Latin American economic crunches in shaping attitudes towards
immigration. This collection of thought-provoking chapters extends the
concepts of diaspora and transnationalism, forcing the reader to reassess
their present limitations as interpretive tools. In the process, Afro-
Hispanic, Afro-Portuguese, and Mahjaris are rendered visible as national
actors and transnational citizens.
Cristián H. Ricci is a professor of Iberian studies and North African studies
at the University of California, Merced. His literary research interests
and experience include the narrative of Spain, the literature of Morocco
written in Western European languages (Castilian, Catalan, French, Dutch,
English), and the literatures of Equatorial Guinea and Latin America from
1800 through the present. He is the author of El espacio urbano en la
narrativa del Madrid de la Edad de Plata, 1900–1938 (2009), Literatura
periférica en castellano y catalán: el caso marroquí (2010), ¡Hay moros
en la costa! Literatura marroquí fronteriza en castellano y catalán (2014),
and New Voices of Muslim North African Migrants in Europe (2019).
He is the codirector of Transmodernity. Journal of Peripheral Cultural
Production of the Luso-Hispanic World.
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Arabs—Portugal. | Arabs—Latin America. | Africans—Spain. |
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Contents
List of Contributors viii
Introduction 1
CRISTIÁN H. RICCI
PART I
Spain 21
1 Integration, School, and the Children of North African
Immigrants in Spain 23
DANIELA FLESLER
2 Finding and Recording the Invisible: The Porteadoras of
the Spanish-Moroccan Border in Documentary Film 36
RAQUEL VEGA-DURÁN
3 Saharaui Women Writers in Spain: Voices of Resistance
in Mil y un poemas saharauis II [One Thousand and
One Saharaui Poems II] 50
DEBRA FASZER-MCMAHON
4 Sex, Identity, and Narration in the Equatoguinean
Diaspora 67
MAHAN L. ELLISON
5 Mothering, Mestizaje and the Future of Spain 81
ANNA TYBINKO
vi Contents
PART II
Portugal 95
6 Black Migration, Citizenship, and Racial Capital in
Post-Imperial Portugal 97
DANIEL F. SILVA
7 We Are Not Your Negroes: Analyzing Mural Representations
of Blackness in Lisbon Metropolitan Area 113
MARGARIDA RENDEIRO
8 Reclaiming an Individual Space: The Angolan Diaspora
in Portugal 135
SANDRA SOUSA
9 Luso-Arabic Poetry: Reviewing the Concept 150
CATARINA NUNES DE ALMEIDA
10 Portugal Against the Moors in the 21st Century:
Invisible Diasporas and the “Mediatic Romanticism”
of a Contemporary Opera 163
EVERTON V. MACHADO
PART III
Latin America 179
11 Chilestinians and Journalism 181
HEBA EL ATTAR
12 Writing South, Facing East: Arab Argentine Narratives 194
MARCUS PALMER
13 Chronicling “the Death of the Arab” in Colombian
Literature 207
ANGELA HADDAD
14 The Otherness That Remains. The Past From The Future:
Cuaderno de Chihuahua [Chihuahua Notebook] by
Jeannette Lozano Clariond 223
ROSE MARY SALUM
Contents vii
15 The Idea of Translation in Ancient Tillage, by Raduan
Nassar 237
NAZIR AHMED CAN
Index 251
Contributors
Introduction
Cristián H. Ricci is a Professor of Iberian Studies and North African Stud-
ies at the University of California, Merced. His literary research interests
and experience include the narrative of Spain, the literature of Morocco
written in Western European languages (Castilian, Catalan, French,
Dutch, English), and the literatures of Equatorial Guinea and Latin Amer-
ica from 1800 through the present. He is the author of El espacio urbano
en la narrativa del Madrid de la Edad de Plata, 1900–1938 (CSIC, 2009),
Literatura periférica en castellano y catalán: el caso marroquí (Biblioteca
Clásica–U of Minnesota, 2010), ¡Hay moros en la costa! Literatura mar-
roquí fronteriza en castellano y catalán (Iberoamericana, 2014), and New
Voices of Muslim North African Migrants in Europe (Brill, 2019). He is
the codirector of Transmodernity. Journal of Peripheral Cultural Produc-
tion of the Luso-Hispanic World.
Spain
Daniela Flesler is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of
Hispanic Languages and Literature at Stony Brook University in NY,
U.S.A. She is the author of The Return of the Moor: Spanish Responses to
Contemporary Moroccan Immigration (Purdue UP, 2008) and co- editor
of Revisiting Jewish Spain in the Modern Era (Routledge, 2013) and
Genealogies of Sepharad (Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History
18, 2020). She has been the recipient of ACLS and NEH fellowships. Her
most recent book is The Memory Work of Jewish Spain (Indiana Univer-
sity Press, 2020), co-authored with Adrián Pérez Melgosa and winner of
the 2021 National Jewish Book award in the Sephardic culture category.
Raquel Vega-Durán is Senior Lecturer in Peninsular and Transatlantic
Film and Literature and Chair of the program Ethnicity, Migration, Rights
at Harvard University. Her research focuses on Spanish Peninsular Stud-
ies; Migration and Borders; Gender and Identity Studies; Social Activism;
and Transatlantic and Mediterranean literature, flm, and photography.
Contributors ix
She is the author of Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders: Migrants,
Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain (Bucknell UP, 2016).
She is currently working on a new book-length project entitled Vanish-
ing Europe: Abandoned Villages and the Repopulation of Europe in the
Twenty-First Century. Until 2017, Raquel Vega-Durán was Associate
Professor at Claremont McKenna College.
Debra Faszer-McMahon is Professor of Spanish and Dean of the School
of Humanities at Seton Hill University. Her research interests include
transnational poetics, immigration, cultural studies, and women writ-
ers. She has published Cultural Encounters in Contemporary Spain: The
Poetry of Clara Janés (Bucknell UP 2010), African Immigrants in Con-
temporary Spanish Texts: Crossing the Strait (Routledge/Ashgate Press
2015 – co-edited with Victoria L. Ketz), and A Laboratory of Her Own:
Women and Science in Spanish Culture (Vanderbilt UP 2021 – co-edited
with Victoria L. Ketz and Dawn Smith-Sherwood), as well as articles in
Hispania, Afro-Hispanic Review, Letras Femeninas, Transmodernity, and
other journals. She is currently working on a book-length project about
La Generación de la Amistad and Saharawi poetics in Spain.
Mahan L. Ellison is Associate Professor of Spanish at Furman Uni-
versity. His research focuses on the literary and historical connections
between Spain and Africa. He is the author of the book Africa in the
Contemporary Spanish Novel, 1990–2010 (Lexington Books 2021), and
he has published articles in Research in African Literatures, CELAAN
(Review of the Center for the Study of Literatures and Arts of North
Africa), the Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies, Confuencia,
and other journals. He was a 2020–2021 Fulbright Scholar to Morocco
and Spain, and his research has been supported by grants from the
National Endowment for the Humanities and the Virginia Foundation
for Independent Colleges Mednick Memorial Fellowship. More informa-
tion can be found at www.mahanellison.com.
Anna Tybinko is a NEH Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow
at Vanderbilt University in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese. Pre-
viously, she was the John Hope Franklin Postdoctoral Research Associate
in the Franklin Humanities Institute’s From Slavery to Freedom Lab at
Duke University where she also received her doctorate in Romance Stud-
ies. She specializes in Migration and Border Studies in the Iberian world.
She has been the recipient of fellowships from the Council for European
Studies, the Mellon Foundation and the American Council of Learned
Societies for her research on questions of race, racialization, and urban
borderlands in contemporary Spain.
Portugal
Daniel F. Silva is Associate Professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies at Middle-
bury College, where he is also Director of the Black Studies Program. He
