Voci migranti nella letteratura spagnola contemporanea

The phenomenon of immigration in contemporary Spain has led the country to face new forms of cultural production, as literature, proceeding from extra cultural contexts now included in the local territory. The post-colonial perspective has been meaningful to analyse the literary texts recollected in this work, but the sight proposed by Homi Komi Bhabha and Spivak needed to be revised according to a new historical context. The western metropolis that hosts the XXI century migrants is not anymore linked to a postcolonial and decolonized world, but to a new form of renovated colonialism, expressed in the enclosure of EU frontiers, in the political and media production of ‘illegality’ and in the economical slavery of the ‘North’ on the ‘South’. The “absence” of colonized people has been reactivated in the denial of existence of contemporary ‘il/legal beings’, invisible in the darkness of their irregular condition or, if they are legal, still not visible in the obscurity of stereotypes and racism of European citizens. The analysis of some meaningful literary texts of immigrant authors living in Spain, such as Najat El Hachmi, Saïd El Kadaoui, Víctor Ombga and Sivia Cuevas-Morales, has shown interesting results on the variability of self-representation forms and on the effects that the anti-immigration EU policy has on the expression of the ‘in-between’ voices.