HISPANISMO EN ÁFRICA SUBSAHARIANA MÁS ALLÁ DE LA COLONIA: UNA APROXIMACIÓN A LA LITERATURA HISPANO-CAMERUNESA1

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There Is No Heaven Under the Pyrenees: “undocumented” Africans and Workplace in Spain in Construcción, ¿trabajo o esclavitud? and Dormir al raso.

The present paper utilizes creative writings, to present and theorize the multiple faces of contemporary undocumented African immigrants and hostile work environments in Construcción, ¿trabajo o esclavitud? (2011) by Jordao Manuel Quizembe and El Gheryb, en Dormir al raso (1994). Even though, the mistreatment of Africans in the workplace, as portrayed in novels and films, goes from mild to harsh. I argue that this abuse depends on many factors, among which, the legal status of the worker (documented versus undocumented), the level of education (educated versus non-educated), and above all the country of origin (Maghreb versus Sub-Saharan Africa). I contend that the discrimination of sub-Saharan Africans in the work place is mostly due to the legacy of racism associated with blackness. However, this form of racism is subtle, moving from a “traditional” biological racism to a cultural one. The rejection of North Africans and Moroccans, in particular, is mostly related to the fact that they are historically implicated in the question of Spanish identity. The Moroccan identity becomes symbolically synonymous to the concept of the enemy: The “Moors”

Afro-Hispanic Experience and the Hispanic World of Grammar

In this paper I will present from a socio-historical perspective the effect of the Spanish language on the Afro-Hispanic text/ culture and the way black Hispanic reacted to the dominant discourse. As Ngugi Wa Thiongo onced put it, Language carries culture and culture carries the entire body of values by which we come to perceive ourselves and our place in the world. Language is inseparable from ourselves as a community of human beings with a specific form and character, a specific history, a specific relationship to the world. Of the Afro-Hispanic acts, the most lasting is the visionary expression of blackness as an important element within the Hispanic culture. Transatlantic black culture in the Americas has a philosophy of self-protection adaptable to the needs of non-specifically black Latin-American in search of their own space in the Hispanic world of grammar

Hacia Una Poetica Afro-Colombiana Y Ecuatoriana: El Caso Del Pacifico

281 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005.This dissertation explores and analyzes a common denominator in the thematic of these authors, a common denominator independent of regional and national differences, as well as a simultaneous aesthetic preoccupation with the local and the universal. These authors use local elements from the landscape as well as their socio-cultural environment to (re)construct universal beliefs. This dissertation should serve is a first history of the Afro-Hispanic poetry of the Pacific and it is hoped, will contribute to a better understanding of Afro-Colombian and Ecuadorian poetry, culture and geography.U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD