{"id":48114,"date":"2016-07-04T22:04:24","date_gmt":"2016-07-04T22:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48114"},"modified":"2016-07-04T22:04:24","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T22:04:24","slug":"efun-white-love-and-modernity-in-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48114","title":{"rendered":"Ef\u00fan: \u201cWhite Love\u201d and Modernity in Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/hcs.2016.0026\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ef\u00fan<\/strong><em><strong>: \u201cWhite Love\u201d and Modernity in Guinea<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journal\/357\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/issue\/33604\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 19, 2015<\/a><br \/>\npages 33-54<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1353\/hcs.2016.0026\" target=\"_blank\">10.1353\/hcs.2016.0026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mindtrip.wou.edu\/las\/humanities\/spanish\/connolly.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kathleen Connolly<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Spanish<br \/>\n<em>Western Oregon University, Monmouth, Oregon<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This paper analyzes the award-winning novel <em>Ef\u00fan<\/em> (1955), by Liberata Masoliver. The novel, a romance-adventure set in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Equatorial_Guinea\" target=\"_blank\">Equatorial Guinea<\/a>, stages a cosmopolitan, white identity in the form of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Catalans\" target=\"_blank\">Catalan<\/a> protagonists Ana Ribera and Carlos Isart. The narrative harnesses racial discourse, as well as the signs of technological advancement and modernity, to portray Spaniards as ideal colonizers in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guinea\" target=\"_blank\">Guinea<\/a>. Significantly, Ef\u00fan while in line with much of the ideological values espoused by National Catholicism, contains subtle counter discourses that construct upper-class Catalans as ideal national subjects. The novel\u2019s preoccupation with transgressive sex and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> demonstrates an anxiety regarding the \u201cracial consequences\u201d of the colonial project: the destruction of European, white, identity. <em>Ef\u00fan\u2019s<\/em> unease about mixed race, dangerous <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mestizo\" target=\"_blank\">mestizos<\/a>, and insinuations of Catalan racial purity all form an integral part of Masoliver\u2019s education of desire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ef\u00fan: \u201cWhite Love\u201d and Modernity in Guinea Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies Volume 19, 2015 pages 33-54 DOI: 10.1353\/hcs.2016.0026 Kathleen Connolly, Assistant Professor of Spanish Western Oregon University, Monmouth, Oregon This paper analyzes the award-winning novel Ef\u00fan (1955), by Liberata Masoliver. The novel, a romance-adventure set in Equatorial Guinea, stages a cosmopolitan, white identity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,1196,8],"tags":[17832,24417,24411,24416,24412,24415,24414,24413,24410],"class_list":["post-48114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-arizona-journal-of-hispanic-cultural-studies","tag-efun","tag-equatorial-guinea","tag-guinea","tag-iberian-studies","tag-kathleen-connolly","tag-kathleen-h-connolly","tag-kathleen-honora-connolly","tag-liberata-masoliver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48115,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48114\/revisions\/48115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}