Tony Horwitz, author of Confederates in the Attic, has a nice opinion piece (link) on the denial in the US of our Spanish heritage and how this misrepresentation of history is used by today’s immigration foes. Horwitz puts the current debate in the context a long history of black legend fear mongering and cultural denial in the United States. For anyone interested in this topic as it pertains to cultural and literary history, María DeGuzmán’s Spain’s Long Shadow is well worth checking out. The book considers the representation of Spain in the works of US writers from Poe to Hemingway. She argues that the black legend has been used continually to shape and reshape the construction of whiteness in the United States. Spain’s Long Shadow, published last year, is engaging, insightful, and accessible for anyone generally familiar with literary theory.
Tags: United States, Culture, Immigration, Literature
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