Antiutopian colonization, normalization and uprooting of the undesirable (Postcolonial reflections on the Spanish Transition)

Abstract

On the last decades postcolonial criticism has gained a long and profound acceptance between the social scientists and humanists; however its spectrum has usually remained inside the boundaries of those territories for which it was conceived: territories coming from the two European colonial streams and from postcolonial processes with their obvious neocolonial traces. The purpose of this article is to extend the use of those theories and theorical tools of the critic to a differnt territory: the Spanish Transition and the Hegemonic Narrative that, somehow, colonized the thoughts, and have even colonized current thoughts, of many Spaniards. As I am going to defend on its pages, those same thoughts cornerd other possible memories, undermined other utopic ways of been in the world and provided us with a very uncivic type of subjectivity: consumist and dreamy about the, apparently, indisputable today.