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Estudios de Asia y África
On-line version ISSN 2448-654XPrint version ISSN 0185-0164
Abstract
GARCIA FERNANDEZ, Javier. Beyond Medievalism and Arabism: Al-Andalus in a Postcolonial Perspective. Estud. Asia Áfr. [online]. 2022, vol.57, n.1, pp.61-94. Epub Mar 14, 2022. ISSN 2448-654X. https://doi.org/10.24201/eaa.v57i1.2653.
This article aims to contribute to overcoming the Eurocentric and Occidentalist views of Al-Andalus through the critical analysis of two disciplines: medievalism and Arabism. First, medievalism is described as an exercise in Occidentalism. Secondly, Spanish Arabism is analysed as a discursive corpus originating in the French colonial world. The text concludes by incorporating certain contributions from Latin American decolonial theory and from contemporary Anglo-American postcolonial medievalism, to locate certain lines of analysis and reflection that call for a postcolonial and non-Eurocentric view of the Andalusian phenomenon.
Keywords : medievalism; orientalism; postcolonialism; epistemic decolonization; Al-Andalus.