African Women’s Histories in European Narratives

Chapter 1. African women’s histories in European narratives – Introduction
1.1. Premise
1.2. Hypothesis
1.3. Academic aims and state of the art
1.4. Methodology

Chapter 2. Fernandino women in colonial Santa Isabel and independent Malabo
2.1. The African context and Europe: English and Spanish presence in Fernando Poo and Santa Isabel
2.2. The Krio Fernandino community and Amelia Barleycorn de Vivour
2.3. Everyday life in Santa Isabel
2.4. Tensions and conflicts: surviving under colonial repression
2.5. The connection between Malabo and Barcelona since 1968: Equatorial Guinean exile
2.6. Conclusions

Chapter 3. The Fernandino in Barcelona during colonisation and post-independence
3.1. Barcelona and Santa Isabel
3.2. Amelia Barleycorn heading to Europe
3.3. Life in Barcelona
3.4. The Krio Fernandino: trade, health and social life
3.5. Barcelona, missionary actions and student intake aimed at Equatorial Guineans
3.6. Krio Fernandino intersectionality: class, gender and race
3.7. Spain’s collective amnesia post-1968 and the onset of racism during the 1990s
3.8. Conclusions

Chapter 4. Decolonising the African past from a gender perspective
4.1. Amelia Barleycorn de Vivour v. Spanish Government (1911): marriage, nationality, gender and religion
4.2. Fernandino women: between bourgeois elitism and colonial power
4.3. The domestic service used by the Krio Fernandino community or how to (de)racialise class from intersectionality
4.4. The status and social presentation of the body as a formula of distinction Fernandino
4.5. Fernandino women mixing cultures and continents (Africa, America and Europe)
4.6. The impact of Spanish colonialism and Fernandino decline
4.7. Conclusion

Chapter 5. A past forged in the present : the collective memory of Krio Fernandino women – Closing notes

Notes

Primary and secondary sources
Primary sources
Secondary sources
Index