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Christina Civantos

Christina Civantos is associate professor in the department of modern languages and literatures at the University of Miami (Florida).

The Afterlife of al-Andalus: Muslim Iberia in Contemporary Arab and Hispanic Narratives

The Afterlife of al-Andalus [1] examines medieval Muslim Iberia, or al-Andalus, in twentieth and twenty-first century narrative, drama, television and film from the Arab world and its diaspora, as well as from Spain and Argentina. My focus in this book is on the role of contemporary representations and invocations of

Christina Civantos • 9 min read