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Africans in Europe:

The Culture of Exile and Emigration from Equatorial Guinea to Spain

ISBN-13: 9780252079238
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
By Michael Ugarte
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Local release date: 14/06/2013
Format: Paperback 224 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Anthropology [JHM]

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Google Preview: What differentiates emigration from exile? This book delves theoretically and practically into this core question of population movements by tracing the shifts of Africans into and out of Equatorial Guinea. Throughout its history, many inhabitants of Equatorial Guinea were forced to leave, whether because of the slave trade of the early nineteenth century or the political upheavals of the twentieth century. Michael Ugarte examines the writings of Equatorial Guinean exiles and migrants, considering the underlying causes of such moves and arguing that the example of Equatorial Guinea is emblematic of broader dynamics of cultural exchange in a postcolonial world. Africans in Europe captures the nuanced realities and widespread impact of mobile populations. Ugarte illustrates the global material inequalities that occur when groups and populations migrate from their native land of colonization to other countries and regions that are often the lands of the former colonizers. By focusing on the geographical, emotional, and intellectual dynamics of Equatorial Guinea's human movements, readers gain an insight to ''the consciousness of an age'' and an understanding of the global realities that will define the cultural, economic, and political currents of the twenty-first century.; ''Ugarte's refined prose, playful ideas, and timely and pertinent subject matter highlight the value of Equatorial Guinean emixile [exile-emigration] writers for understanding global migrations and cultural cross-fertilization.'' Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies ''A thorough examination of the African nation of Equatorial Guinea and its complex political, cultural, and literary history. Africans in Europe makes a definitive contribution to the burgeoning field of Afro-Spanish studies and the literature of Equatorial Guinea.'' Silvia Bermudez, author of La esfinge de la escritura: la poesia etica de Blanca Varela; Google Preview content

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