| FT-54515-06 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Ana Rueda | Fictions of Conflict: Questioning Alterity in Spanish and Moroccan War Narrative | 6/1/2006 - 7/31/2006 | $5,000.00 | Ana | | Rueda | | | | University of Kentucky | Lexington | KY | 40506-0001 | USA | 2006 | Spanish Literature | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
This proposal is part of a book project that will help reconstruct the fictional and non-fictional accounts of military conflicts between Spain and Morocco, beginning with colonial chronicles of the 1859-60 African War and ending with anti-war novels of the 1930s. The texts display reactions to the Moroccan which range from exclusion to inclusion; from villainization to belief in an exotic African. These attitudes subsume Morocco to exploit or cancel its Otherness and thereby render the history of the Arab-as-enemy an impossible task. Here I propose to research accounts of these military conflicts written from the Moroccan perspective that challenge the official version Spain divulged via its Protectorate in Morocco. |