Blackness and Femininity Through the Travel Stories of Emilio Guinea
Abstract
Emilio Guinea (1907-1985), a botanist attached to the Botanical Garden in Madrid during the 1940s, carried out intense colonial work on the Spanish provinces in Africa. His activity resulted in several scientific expeditions to Fernando Poo and Río Muni, which produced two eloquent works: En el País de los Bubis and En el País de los Pámues.
The present work aims to carry out an analysis of the concepts of negritude and femininity detailed in these two chronicles. Specifically, the figure of the Pámue or mininga woman will be studied, paying attention to the ideas and images that are described and that are framed within this colonial context whose discourse sought to justify a technical, gender, race and class superiority.
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