Unsettling Colonialism illuminates the interplay of race and gender in a range offin-de-siècle Spanish narratives of empire and colonialism, including literary fictions, travel narratives, political treatises, medical discourse, and the visual arts, across the global Hispanic world. By focusing on texts by and about women and foregrounding Spain's pivotal role in the colonization of the Americas, Africa, and Asia, this book not only breaks new ground in Iberian literary and cultural studies but also significantly broadens the scope of recent debates in postcolonial feminist theory to account for the Spanish empire and its (former) colonies. Organized into three sections: colonialism and women's migrations; race, performance, and colonial ideologies; and gender and colonialism in literary and political debates, Unsettling Colonialism brings together the work of nine scholars. Given its interdisciplinary approach and accessible style, the book will appeal to both specialists in nineteenth-century Iberian and Latin American studies and a broader audience of scholars in gender, cultural, transatlantic, transpacific, postcolonial, and empire studies.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I. Colonialism and Women's Migrations

1. The Colonial Politics of Meteorology: The West African Expedition of the Urquiola Sisters
Benita Sampedro Vizcaya

2. Eva Canel and the Gender of Hispanism
Lisa Surwillo

3. Gender, Race, and Spain's Colonial Legacy in the Americas: Representations of White Slavery in Eugenio Flores'sTrata de blancas and Eduardo Lopez Bago'sCarne importada
Akiko Tsuchiya

Part II. Race, Performance, and Colonial Ideologies

4. A Black Woman CalledBlanca la extranjera in Faustina Saez de Melgar'sLos miserables (1862-63)
Ana Mateos

5. Colonial Imaginings on the Stage: Blackface, Gender, and the Economics of Empire in Spanish and Catalan Popular Theater
Mar Soria

Part III. Gender and Colonialism in Literary and Political Debates

6. Becoming Useless: Masculinity, Able-Bodiedness, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Julia Chang

7. From Imperial Boots to Naked Feet: Clarin's Views on Cuban Freedom and Female Independence inLa Regenta
Nuria Godon

8.Dalagas andIlustrados: Gender, Language, and Indigeneity in the Philippine Colonies
Joyce Tolliver

9. The Spanish Carceral Archipelago: Concepcion Arenal against Penitentiary Colonization
Aurelie Vialette

Contributors
Index