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Strategies for Writing Gibraltar into the World
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Abstract

Gibraltar, a British Overseas Territory located on the Iberian Peninsula, near the confluence of the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, exists in a state of ongoing political and cultural tension with the United Kingdom and Spain. Gibraltarians’ collective identity has been formed both and these two historical and cultural inputs. British and Spanish writing about Gibraltar has tended to silence the voices of as they have attempted to describe and reflect upon their community, their place in the world and their experiences. Given this dynamic, this introductory article assesses strategies that four Gibraltarian poets, working in different periods, have taken to write their community into the world.

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Gibraltar, territorio ultramarino británico ubicado en la península ibérica, cerca de la confluencia del Mar Mediterráneo y del Océano Atlántico, ha vivido históricamente un estado de tensión política y cultural con el Reino Unido y con España. La identidad colectiva de los gibraltareños se ha formado y estos dos factores históricos y culturales. Lo que autores británicos y españoles han escrito de Gibraltar ha tendido a silenciar las voces de , quienes han tratado de describir y reflexionar sobre su comunidad, el lugar que tienen en el mundo, y sus vivencias. Considerando esta dinámica, en el presente artículo introductorio se evalúan las estrategias que cuatro poetas gibraltareños han tomado, y en diferentes períodos, para inscribir su comunidad en el mundo.

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Keyword(s): colonialism; colonialismo; España; Estudios Ibéricos; gibraltareños; Gibraltarians; Gran Bretaña; Great Britain; Iberian Studies; literatura; literature; multilingualism; multilingüismo; poscolonialismo; postcolonialism; Spain

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