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The colonial politics of meteorology: the West African expedition of the Urquiola Sisters / Benita Sampedro Vizcaya -- Eva Canel and the gender of Hispanism / Lisa Surwillo -- Gender, race, and Spain's colonial legacy in the Americas: representations of white slavery in Eugenio Flores's Trata de blancas and Eduardo López Bago's Carne importada / Akiko Tsuchiya -- A black woman called Blanca la Extranjera in Faustina Sáez de Melgar's Los miserables (1862-63) / Ana Mateos -- Colonial imaginings on the stage: blackface, gender, and the economics of empire in Spanish and Catalan popular theater / Mar Soria -- Becoming useless: masculinity, able-bodiedness, and empire in nineteenth-century Spain / Julia Chan -- From imperial boots to naked feet: Clarín's views on Cuban freedom and female independence in La regenta / Nuria Godón -- Dalagas and ilustrados: gender, language and indigeneity in the Philippine colonies / Joyce Tolliver -- The Spanish carceral archipelago: concepción arenal against penitentiary colonization / Aurélie Vialette. "Unsettling Colonialism illuminates the interplay of race and gender in a range of fin-de-siècle Spanish narratives of empire and colonialism, including literary fictions, travel narratives, political treatises, medical discourse, and the visual arts, across the global Hispanic world. By focusing on texts by and about women and foregrounding Spain's pivotal role in the colonization of the Americas, Africa, and Asia, this volume breaks new ground in Iberian literary and cultural studies while also significantly broadening the scope of recent debates in postcolonial feminist theory to account for the Spanish empire and its (former) colonies. Bringing together the work of nine scholars, Unsettling Colonialism is organized into three sections: colonialism and women's migrations; race, performance, and colonial ideologies; and gender and colonialism in literary and political debates. Given its interdisciplinary approach and accessible style, the book will appeal not only to specialists in nineteenth-century Iberian and Latin-American studies but also to a broader audience of scholars in gender, cultural, transatlantic, transpacific, postcolonial, and empire studies"--
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