Reescrituras contemporáneas de la esclavitud en las islas Canarias: los fantasmas memoriales en la novela histórica Epistolario de un nativo (2019) de Pedro Óscar Martínez Quintana

Not many publications exist about the history of colonization and slavery in the Canary Islands, and then a significant epistemic and memorial void remains in the contemporary Canarian imagination due to the total destruction of the native cultures and languages after the crimes of colonization and...

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Main Author: Claire Laguian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre de Recherches Ibériques et Ibéro-Américaines 2021-07-01
Series:Cahiers de Civilisation Espagnole Contemporaine
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/ccec/11905
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spelling doaj-08aff11c995f453699b22088838c53ae2021-08-03T07:08:28ZengCentre de Recherches Ibériques et Ibéro-AméricainesCahiers de Civilisation Espagnole Contemporaine1957-77612021-07-0110.4000/ccec.11905Reescrituras contemporáneas de la esclavitud en las islas Canarias: los fantasmas memoriales en la novela histórica Epistolario de un nativo (2019) de Pedro Óscar Martínez QuintanaClaire LaguianNot many publications exist about the history of colonization and slavery in the Canary Islands, and then a significant epistemic and memorial void remains in the contemporary Canarian imagination due to the total destruction of the native cultures and languages after the crimes of colonization and acculturation. There is no access to historical sources that would give voice to the native Canarian peoples, and due to these ghosts of the past and to the current search for a Guanche identity, literature faces this challenge of taking hold of the stories of slavery. The historical novel Epistolario de un nativo (2019) by Pedro Óscar Martínez Quintana is one of the examples of what a contemporary rewriting of the spectral colonial past can mean with its historical work, its counter-discourse in front of the official story of the Spanish State, its mythification and its contradictions, without forgetting its fictional stratagems and its positioning from a present that draws inspiration from the political struggles of the minorities.http://journals.openedition.org/ccec/11905Canary IslandsSlaveryColonizationRevivalismGuanchesFantology
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Reescrituras contemporáneas de la esclavitud en las islas Canarias: los fantasmas memoriales en la novela histórica Epistolario de un nativo (2019) de Pedro Óscar Martínez Quintana
Cahiers de Civilisation Espagnole Contemporaine
Canary Islands
Slavery
Colonization
Revivalism
Guanches
Fantology
author_facet Claire Laguian
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title Reescrituras contemporáneas de la esclavitud en las islas Canarias: los fantasmas memoriales en la novela histórica Epistolario de un nativo (2019) de Pedro Óscar Martínez Quintana
title_short Reescrituras contemporáneas de la esclavitud en las islas Canarias: los fantasmas memoriales en la novela histórica Epistolario de un nativo (2019) de Pedro Óscar Martínez Quintana
title_full Reescrituras contemporáneas de la esclavitud en las islas Canarias: los fantasmas memoriales en la novela histórica Epistolario de un nativo (2019) de Pedro Óscar Martínez Quintana
title_fullStr Reescrituras contemporáneas de la esclavitud en las islas Canarias: los fantasmas memoriales en la novela histórica Epistolario de un nativo (2019) de Pedro Óscar Martínez Quintana
title_full_unstemmed Reescrituras contemporáneas de la esclavitud en las islas Canarias: los fantasmas memoriales en la novela histórica Epistolario de un nativo (2019) de Pedro Óscar Martínez Quintana
title_sort reescrituras contemporáneas de la esclavitud en las islas canarias: los fantasmas memoriales en la novela histórica epistolario de un nativo (2019) de pedro óscar martínez quintana
publisher Centre de Recherches Ibériques et Ibéro-Américaines
series Cahiers de Civilisation Espagnole Contemporaine
issn 1957-7761
publishDate 2021-07-01
description Not many publications exist about the history of colonization and slavery in the Canary Islands, and then a significant epistemic and memorial void remains in the contemporary Canarian imagination due to the total destruction of the native cultures and languages after the crimes of colonization and acculturation. There is no access to historical sources that would give voice to the native Canarian peoples, and due to these ghosts of the past and to the current search for a Guanche identity, literature faces this challenge of taking hold of the stories of slavery. The historical novel Epistolario de un nativo (2019) by Pedro Óscar Martínez Quintana is one of the examples of what a contemporary rewriting of the spectral colonial past can mean with its historical work, its counter-discourse in front of the official story of the Spanish State, its mythification and its contradictions, without forgetting its fictional stratagems and its positioning from a present that draws inspiration from the political struggles of the minorities.
topic Canary Islands
Slavery
Colonization
Revivalism
Guanches
Fantology
url http://journals.openedition.org/ccec/11905
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