Throughout their history, Latin America, Spain, and Africa have undergone similar experiences, which involve not only spec ific political, social, or cultural situations, but even a particular relationship to Europe. Nineteenth and twentieth century Latin America and Spanish authors frequently referred to Africa in their works, and those references were essential to the construction of their images of their own countries.[...] The articles collected in Breaking Borders push through the limits of the paradigm of colonialism to allow the perception of the history, societies, and cultures of Africa and the Hispanic worlds from the perspective of their common problems and historical experiences.

Gustavo Mejía:

    The Africa of Jorge Isaacs: The Construction of the Exotic in Latin American Romanticism

Abdelatiff Limami:

    Africa in the Writings of Roberto Arlt: Aguasfuertes españolas and Africa

Yaw Agawu-Kakraba:

    Recasting Spanish Colonization and Imperialism: Angel Ganivet´s Idearium español and La conquista del reino de Maya.

Marita Wenzel:

    Power Relations in Bessie Head´s A Qquestion of Power and Luisa Valenzuela´s Cola de lagartija.

Cathy Maree:

    Resistance and Remembrance: Theatre During and After Dictatorship and Apartheid

Liliana Tabákova:

    Some Problems with Latin American Testimonial Literature.

Reingard Nethersole:

    Crossing Borders on the Faith of a Dream: Similarities and Differences Between Calderon´s, Bunyan´s and   Brink´s Imaginary Worlds.

Darío Villanueva:

    The Opening of the Sapnish Literary System.

Wlad Godzich:

    The Spanish Black Atlantic: Further Complications in the History of Modernity.