Juan Goytisolo with Edward Said: for a restarted tra(d)ition

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Max Hidalgo Nácher

Abstract

Juan Goytisolo has been one of the most famous writers, in the 20th century, for opening historiography and national literature to currents that exceed the narrowness of an essentialist and traditionalist framework in which it is not difficult to detect national-Catholic and Francoists, but also from the Spanish imperial past and the myth that constituted it. This essay addresses a close, traditionally related, and many times until our days, with the discourse of Hispanism, from the historiographical and literary work carried out by Goytisolo. For that, we will rely partially on some reflections of Edward Said, and we will indicate some analogies, as Sebastiaan Faber shows, between Hispanism and Orientalism.

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Max Hidalgo Nácher, Universitat de Barcelona

Profesor de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada en la Universitat de Barcelona y profesor visitante de la École Normale Supérieure. Miembro del Grupo de Estudios Exilio Literario (GEXEL). 

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Juan Goytisolo with Edward Said: for a restarted tra(d)ition. EXILIUM Journal of Contemporary Studies, [S. l.], v. 4, n. 6, p. 85–98, 2023. DOI: 10.34024/exilium.v4i6.15226. Disponível em: https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/exilium/article/view/15226. Acesso em: 5 dec. 2025.