La experiencia imaginaria de Marruecos en la narrativa española contemporánea

The thesis tries to investigate the real reasons for the increase in narrative publications about Morocco during the last years. In general, it intends to analyze the vision that contemporary Spanish writers offer of the neighboring country in their novels. To do this, a rigorous study of the issues that these works raise and then classify them into differentiated blocks is made: The vision of the "other", society, religion, mythology and popular beliefs, immigration seen from the other side. From the results of this analysis you can see, clearly, how the image of Morocco is evolving, and if there was a maturity in the way of dealing with the issues of its present. Since each work includes the own experiences of each author, we cannot speak of a uniform model of a novel about Morocco. As a result, the novels contain the strategy adopted by each distanced writer, the vision of the committed writer, the vision of the romantic writer, the vision of the cursed writer