Volume 8 (2004) – Equitorial Guinea and Spanish Letters

ESSAYS

Yeon-Soo Kim
Maternal Touch in Pilar Rodiles’s “Bidún” (Undocumented)

Txetxu Aguado
Ni “El estrangulador” ni el hombre total: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán y la historia de Boston

Paul Fallon
“La luna siempre será un amor difícil”: Bordering on Consuming (and) Nationalizing Narratives

Dara E. Goldman
Next Year in the Diaspora: The Uneasy Articulation of Transcultural Positionality in Achy Obejas’s “Days of Awe”

Ibon Izurieta
Ramón Saizarbitoria’s High Modernist Novel in Contemporary Basque Literature

INTERVIEW

Voices from the “Guerrilla del Monte”: Interview with Two Spanish Maquis
Florián García Velasco, Patrick Gallagher

SPECIAL SECTION: EQUITORIAL GUINEA IN SPANISH LETTERS

Guest Editors: Michael Ugarte and M’baré N’gom

M’baré N’gom, Michael Ugarte
Introduction

John Lipski
The Spanish Language of Equatorial Guinea

Igor Cusack
“Equatorial Guinea’s National Cuisine Is Simple and Tasty”: Cuisine and the Making of National Culture

Dosinda García-Alvite
Strategic Positions of Las Hijas del Sol: Equitorial Guinea in World Music

Montserrat Alás-Brun
The Shattered Mirror: Colonial Discourse and Counterdiscourse about Spanish Guinea

Michael Ugarte
An Introduction to Spanish Post-Colonial Exile: The Narrative of Donato Ndongo

Clarence Mengue
Lectura del espacio en “Los poderes de la tempestad” de Donato Ndongo Bidyogo

Elisa Rizo
La carga de Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel: Novela historiográfica poscolonial guineoecuatoriana

PEDAGOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

Vanishing Timidity: A Roundtable on African Literature and Culture in the Language and Literature Classroom
Juanmaría Cordones Cook, Gabriela Díaz Cortez, Rangira Bea Gallimore, Chris Okonkwo, MArgaret Olsen, Cristina Rodríguez Cabral, Michael Ugarte, Flore Zaphir

Entrevista: Interview with Donato Ndongo
Michael Ugarte, Donato Ndongo

A Guinean Antigone
Kathleen McNerney, Gabriel Quirós Alpera

Antígona
Trinidad Morgades Besari