Arena en los ojos – Memoria y silencio de la colonización española de Marruecos y el Sáhara Occidental (L. Casielles)

The Spanish view of Morocco and Western Sahara has been fed for decades by misunderstandings, rhetorical pirouettes, mistrust, patriotism and nostalgia. In this book, Laura Casielles shakes up some of the most repeated discourses and confronts them with more humble testimonies. She moves to historical scenarios to dismantle orientalist fantasies and war sophistry, and applies a look full of empathy to understand that the relations that Spain maintained with Morocco and Western Sahara during the 19th and 20th centuries were, yes, fully colonial. In this work, which brings together the best of chronicles and travel literature with the most recent tools of post-colonial studies, the author frees the past and the present from discursive corsets so that we can imagine new ways of relating to each other.