Unsettling Colonialism: Gender and Race in the Nineteenth-Century Global Hispanic World

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Notes
	Works Cited
I. Colonialism and Women’s Migrations
	1. The Colonial Politics of Meteorology: The West African Expedition of the Urquiola Sisters
		Notes
		Works Cited
	2. Eva Canel and the Gender of Hispanism
		Notes
		Works Cited
	3. Gender, Race, and Spain’s Colonial Legacy in the Americas: Representations of White Slavery in Eugenio Flores’s
		Notes
		Works Cited
II. Race, Performance, and Colonial Ideologies
	4. A Black Woman Called Blanca la extranjera in Faustina Sáez de Melgar’s Los miserables (1862–63)
		Introduction
		Performing the Slave Analogy
		Philanthropy as a Transatlantic Strategy of Gender and Racial Emancipation
		Conclusion: Only Skin-Deep?
		Notes
		Works Cited
	5. Colonial Imaginings on the Stage: Blackface, Gender, and the Economics of Empire in Spanish and Catalan Popular Theater
		Notes
		Works Cited
III. Gender and Colonialism in Literary and Political Debates
	6. Becoming Useless: Masculinity, Able-Bodiedness, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Spain
		The Colonizer
		El soldado español
		Los inútiles
		El cojito
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgments
		Notes
		Works Cited
	7. From Imperial Boots to Naked Feet: Clarín’s Views on Cuban Freedom and Female Independence in La Regenta
		Notes
		Works Cited
	8. Dalagas and Ilustrados: Gender, Language, and Indigeneity in the Philippine Colonies
		Notes
		Works Cited
	9. The Spanish Carceral Archipelago: Concepción Arenal against Penitentiary Colonization
		Introduction: Penal Colonies and Colonization
		The Promising Islands: State of Exception and Biopolitical Impact
		Arenal against Penitentiary Colonization: The Defense of Human Rights
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Works Cited
Contributors
Index