| Résumé: | The impact of the massive presence of Moroccan troops on Franco’s side during the Spanish Civil War in Andalusia, a region with a strong Muslim history, is interpreted. from different documentary sources: archival, newspaper, photographic and literary. The result alludes to the formation of domestic orientalism in a southern European society. It departs from Edward Said’s discourse on the formation and function of Orientalism. It gives a complex explanation to the imaginary borders, as a sort of “interface” between stereotypes and cultural phantasmatics. The Moroccan troops were well received by the population supporting the rebels in the first year, but were progressively replaced to avoid the symbolic overload of their presence.
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