Elena Seoane delivers a plenary lecture at AEDEAN 48 on colonialingualism in Gibraltar

On Thursday 13 November, Elena Seoane delivered a plenary at AEDEAN 48, held in Vitoria-Gasteiz. She argued that the loss of Spanish and Llanito is not ‘natural’ or ‘inevitable’, and that the marginalisation and invisibilisation of all literature focused on Gibraltar (i.e. the literary works by M. G. Sanchez, Humbert Hernandez, and Giordano Durante, among others) is not ‘accidental’. Both phenomena, she claimed, are products of colonialingualism: the erasure of local epistemicities in favour of imperial values stemming from active internalised British colonialism and globalisation as a form of neocolonisation.