Twenty-First Century Arab and African Diasporas in Spain Portugal and Latin America

<p>This volume considers the Arabic and African diasporas through the underexplored Afro-Hispanic, Luso-Africans, and <i>Mahjari </i>(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 influenced 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 <i>Mahjaris</i> are rendered visible as national actors and transnational citizens.</p> <p>Introduction </p><p>PART I. SPAIN</p><p>1 Integration, School, and the Children of North African Immigrants in Spain</p><p>2 Finding and Recording the Invisible: The <i>Porteadoras </i>of the Spanish-Moroccan Border in Documentary Film</p><p>3 Saharaui Women Writers in Spain: Voices of Resistance in <i>Mil y un poemas saharauis II [One Thousand and One Saharaui Poems II]</i></p><p>4 Sex, Identity, and Narration in the Equatoguinean Diaspora</p><p>5 Mothering, <i>Mestizaje </i>and the Future of Spain </p><p>PART II. PORTUGAL </p><p>6 Black Migration, Citizenship, and Racial Capital in Post-Imperial Portugal</p><p>7 We Are Not Your Negroes: Analyzing Mural Representations of Blackness in Lisbon Metropolitan Area</p><p>8 Reclaiming an Individual Space: The Angolan Diaspora in Portugal</p><p>9 Luso-Arabic Poetry: Reviewing the Concept</p><p>10 Portugal Against the Moors in the 21st Century: Invisible Diasporas and the "Mediatic Romanticism" of a Contemporary Opera</p><p><b>PART III. LATIN AMERICA</b></p><p>11 Chilestinians and Journalism</p><p>12 Writing South, Facing East: Arab Argentine Narratives</p><p>13 Chronicling "the Death of the Arab" in Colombian Literature</p><p>14 The Otherness That Remains. The Past From The Future: <i>Cuaderno de</i> <i>Chihuahua </i>[<em>Chihuahua Notebook</em>] by Jeannette Lozano Clariond</p><p>15 The Idea of Translation in <em>Ancient Tillage</em>, by Raduan Nassar</p>