ABSTRACT
In the early 2000s an important number of scholars signaled the emergence of diasporic writing in Spain (Candel and Cuenca 106; Fernández Parrilla and González González 425; King 94; Kunz 136). The volume and quality of the works produced by Catalan-Moroccan authors since 2004 places this corpus in a prominent position that overcomes its expected double peripheral position – as diasporic and as Catalan literature – within the Iberian literary system. Yet, minority artists are often tokenized and “burdened with a whole range of extra-artistic concerns precisely because … they are seen as ‘representatives’ who are accountable to, and speak on behalf of, their communities” (Mercer 65). Such contextual concerns are paramount for my discussion as the selected Catalan-Moroccan authors claim their peripheral position to convert it into a space of enunciation and articulate a counter-discursive representation of their community (Pomar-Amer “Play of Mirrors”, “Voices Emerging”).
