Feminine identity and national and racial identity in the afro-feminist work No es país para negras by Silvia Albert Sopale

Abstract

No es país para negras [2018] is a tragicomic one-woman show, co-written and performed by Silvia Albert Sopale, which narrates in the first person the life journey of a black woman born in Spain, in San Sebastián, in 1976. This self-referential journey through the life of the author herself, from childhood to adulthood, through adolescence and its questions, also includes the experiences of many Afro-descendant women, to highlight the identity tension that being an Afro-Spanish woman entails. The play constitutes a reflection on how Spanish society sees, or does not see, Afro-descendant women and how this view affects them in the difficult construction of their own identity, or rather in the expression of an identity in search of visibility. These women suffer both racism and sexism, a superposition of discrimination that can invite us to read and see the play from the perspective of intersectional feminism. Our objective will be to analyse how these two types of discrimination appear and combine in the situations evoked, and how Silvia Albert denounces them in her play.