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- Title
El otro árabe como utopía: Fernand Braudel, Abdelkrim y Juan Goytisolo.
- Authors
Navajas, Gonzalo
- Abstract
The rejection of the Spanish identity leads Goytisolo to the adoption of an alternative identity that he finds in the figure of the Arab other. Without jettisoning the principles that conform the modem project, Goytisolo prefers to foreground in his work the values and ideas that have been traditionally excluded from the modem paradigm because they were deemed marginal and antagonistic. His preference is founded on the conceptual and methodological parameters proposed by Fernand Braudel with his notion of “histoire non-événémentielle" or “longue durée." In lieu of the conventional premises used to study Spanish history Goytisolo revises the guiding principles for interpreting that history. He does away with the Castilian, Western and Catholic foundations of Spanish history and instead he proposes another sort of history conceived from various margins: first from the city of Barcelona, that has its own national identity; then from the Paris of the 1960's and its connotation for transgressive thought (Sartre, Genet); and finally from the Arab world centered on the legendary figure of Abdelkrim, the city of Marrakesh, and the public space of Xemaá-el-Fná. The Arab vantage point generates an innovative version of a national history in which centralism and intellectual and sensorial rigidity have been constant. Orality, emotivity, and solidarity are the principles that the Arab context provides Goytisolo to counter a limiting and restrictive history from a utopian radical perspective akin to that of Ernst Bloch.
- Subjects
GOYTISOLO, Juan, 1931-2017; ARAB civilization in literature; SPANISH national character; INTELLECTUALS; AL-Khattabi, Mohammed bin Abdelkrim; BRAUDEL, Fernand, 1902-1985; LITERARY criticism; SPANISH literature; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
IBEROAMERICANA. América Latina - España - Portugal, 2014, Vol 14, Issue 56, p103
- ISSN
1577-3388
- Publication type
Literary Criticism