What is it about?
This article explores the resonances of the Morisco past in present-day Spain and the connection between the commemoration of the 1609 expulsion and Spanish-Moroccan relations today.
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Why is it important?
By examining the claims about history and memory made by different actors reacting to the commemoration of Spain’s expulsion of the Moriscos, the article shows how the Muslim subject is acknowledged as part of the country’s historical past, yet is hardly accepted as part of Spanish society today.
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This article was written as the output of the 2016 AIMS (American Institute for Maghrib Studies) Annual Conference Mediterranean Crossroads: Spanish-Maghribi Relations in Past and Present, which was held in Tangier on 14 and 15 May 2016 (http://aimsnorthafrica.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/AIMS2016_ConferenceProgram.pdf) It was was supported by the research project ‘Islam 2.0: cultural and religious markers in Mediterranean societies in transformation’, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness [grant number FFI2014-54667-R].
Elena Arigita
Universidad de Granada
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This page is a summary of: Narratives on the margins of history: memory and the commemoration of the Moriscos, The Journal of North African Studies, April 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13629387.2018.1459267.
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