International Journal of Iberian Studies 31.2

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Articles within this issue include (partial list):

*Transnational identities in Portugal and Spain (c.1892–c.1931):
Hispano-Americanism, Pan-Lusitanism and Pan-Latinism*

Authors: Sérgio Campos Matos
Page Start: 75

Sergio suggests an analytical and reflective study around national
identities, nationalisms and geopolitical controversial concepts, through
which it was intended to extend the external projection of Spain and
Portugal and frame transnational communities of destiny:
Hispano-Americanism, Pan-Lusitanism and Pan-Latinism. Were these utopian
expectations? Nationalist expectations to rebuild great nations of the
past? What political impact did these proposals have? Did they contribute
to deterritorializing and redefining the national identities of the
Portuguese and Spanish elites? They were inciting but also controversial
concepts. They carried an imperial historical background and projected
future horizons. But they also raised national and indigenous resistances
(indigenismo) and lively, strong debates in the old colonizing nations and
also in Ibero-America. What was at stake was a consciousness of national
identities and different strategies of defence and response of the
Ibero-American nations vis-à-vis the powerful Northern empires.

*Accommodating the third space in a fourth society: BDAFRICA, a
groundbreaking source for the analysis of African literature reception in
Spain*

Authors: María Remedios Fernández Ruiz And Gloria Corpas Pastor And Míriam
Seghiri
Page Start: 97

Inherent features of African postcolonial literature have hampered
reception quantification, which is even more often neglected in countries
with limited experience of African decolonization processes. This has been
exemplified through the Spanish case, where there was no quantitative data
available to report on current reception trends. Hence, by exploiting the
BDAFRICA database, a relevant specialized bibliographical research tool, we
have provided an unparalleled study that covers 42 years of African
literature reception in Spain (1972–2014). The methods described in this
paper are descriptive. Quantitative information that is subject to a
descriptive analysis has been selected from BDAFRICA. The results provide
clear evidence of the sustained increase in the production of African
fiction books and offer academia unparalleled data, thereby opening the
door to manifold research lines.

*El homosexual como juguete cómico en el cine de Juan de Orduña: el tío
Frasquito en Pequeñeces (1950)*

Authors: Santiago Lomas Martínez
Page Start: 117

During the 1940s, Francoist censorship troubled and banned the
representation of homosexuality in cinema. However, some representational
cracks existed and some queer characters (sissies, transvestites, mannish
women) were visible, almost always as comic figures. These representations
(especially, effeminate men) were frequent in films directed by Juan de
Orduña, a homosexual filmmaker integrated in the Francoist cinematographic
industry. This article studies these characters and proposes some
hypothesis to read Orduña’s authorial position towards them. In particular,
it suggests that Orduña negotiated his creative expression with dominant
discourses concerning homosexuality in order to represent it, as other
homosexual creators had made before him and many others would make
afterwards in Spanish culture. Scripts, censorship documents and films are
compared to show how significant elements related to homosexuality were
added when filming. Specifically, this article focuses in a queer
character, Tío Frasquito, and how it was developed during the production of
Orduña’s film Pequeñeces (1950).

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