Adrift on the black Mediterranean diaspora

African migrant writing in Spain

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3040916
AutoresEsther Sánchez-Pardo (0000-0002-6478-7397, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume17
Fascículo1
Páginas105-120
Data de publicação2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocial Identities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1350-4630 • E-ISSN: 1363-0296
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13504630.2011.531908
OpenAlexW1973830204
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas7

Focusing on the strategies employed to recreate agency in the black diaspora in postcolonial Europe and taking at its basis recent narratives produced by African migrant writers in Spain – Cameroonians Inongo-vi-Makomé and Susan Akono, and Guinean Donato Ndongo – this paper explores the ways in which identity is reconstructed in diasporic situations, to answer questions such as what images of the self and the other are created and disseminated at a national level and in the wider context of globalization. Spain, the historically homogeneous out-migration country is transforming into a site of multicultural interaction as it becomes a destination for members of several diasporas, many with their own legacies of colonialism and racism. Due to its European Union status and growing presence in the world economy, the nation is participating in a global phenomenon in which immigrants, asylum seekers, and refugees are looking towards the new Europe as an impenetrable fortress. This paper attempts to discuss these issues within the tangled web of forms of power and subjection exercised upon immigrants through Western imperialism

Archaeology · Diaspora · Geography · Mediterranean climate · Sociology · Anthropology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Hispanic-African Historical Relations