M. G. Sanchez

M. G. Sanchez is a Gibraltarian writer. He has written over a dozen books, all of which broach the subject of Gibraltarian identity. Articles about Sanchez's work have appeared in a number of European university journals, including British and American Studies,[1] Il Tolomeo,[2] ES Review,[3] Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, [4] the Kervan International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies,[5] the International Journal of Iberian Studies,[6], the Open Library of Humanities[7], as well as in books such as Ritorno a Babele: esercizi di globalizzazione[8] and (Post)Colonial Passages: Incursions and Excursion Across the Literatures and Cultures in English.[9]

M. G. Sanchez

Sanchez has spoken about his books at different European university venues, including the University of Salamanca,[10] the University of Turin,[11] the University of the Balearic Islands,[12][13] the University of Portsmouth,[14] the University of Strasbourg,[15] the University of Barcelona,[16] the University of Northumbria,[17] the University of Lisbon,[18] the University of Gibraltar,[19] King's College London,[20] and the University of Basel,[21] for which he wrote a special autobiographical piece entitled 'Fifty Years of Unbelonging.'[22] He also took part in the 2017 Gibraltar International Literary Festival, delivering a talk entitled 'Representing Gibraltarianness,'[23] and in the 2018 version of the event, where he gave a talk about his book Bombay Journal.[24] Writing in the well-known British publication the New Statesman in early 2015, Sanchez stated that his intention as a writer and speaker was "to present a Gibraltar that feels more real and more tangible than the “contested territory” cliché that readers so often encounter in newspaper editorials."[25]

Sanchez has also taken part in various radio programmes, including ABC's Late Night Live [26] with veteran broadcaster Phillip Adams, the BBC World Service's The Cultural Frontline with Tina Daheley[27] and Antena Caro's Lletres Ebrenques with Emigdi Subirats i Sebastià.[28]

His book Past: A Memoir (2016), relates the hardships his family endured during the Gibraltarian border crisis of 2013 and also describes a walk which Sanchez undertook in Gibraltar's Upper Town Area in the company of the British Historian Nicholas Rankin.

Sanchez holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Leeds.[29]

List of books

Rock of Empire (2001)

Rock Black: Ten Gibraltarian Stories (2006)

Writing the Rock of Gibraltar: An Anthology of Literary Texts, 1720-1890 (2006)

The Prostitutes of Serruya's Lane and other Hidden Histories (2007)

Diary of a Victorian Colonial and other Tales (2008)

Georgian and Victorian Gibraltar: Incredible Eyewitness Accounts (2012)

The Escape Artist (2013)

Solitude House (2015)

Jonathan Gallardo (2015)

Past: A Memoir (2016)

Bombay Journal (2018)

Crossed Lines (2019)

Border Control and other Autobiographical Pieces (2019)

Critical bibliography

Sarah M. Abas, 'M. G. Sanchez: an Interview,' ES Review 39, 2018, pp. 319-330.

Esterino Adami, ‘La Rocca di Babele: narrazioni e trasformazioni linguistiche in M. G. Sanchez,' Ritorno a Babele: prove di globalizzazione (Turin: Neos Terrenia, 2013), pp. 71-81.

Esterino Adami, ‘An Interview with Gibraltarian author M. G. Sanchez followed by a review of The Escape Artist,' Il Tolomeo 13, 2013, pp. 29-36.

Esterino Adami, ‘Recensione di Jonathan Gallardo,’ Il Tolomeo 18, 2016, pp. 233-35.

Esterino Adami, ‘Recensione di Solitude House,’ Il Tolomeo, 17, 2015, pp. 185-187.

Esterino Adami, ‘A Passage to Gibraltar: Alterity and Representation in M. G. Sanchez,’ Postcolonial Passages: incursions and excursions across the literatures and cultures in English (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018), pp. 204–214.

Rebecca Gabay, 'M. G. Sanchez’s Bombay Journal: Redressing the Past from the Colonial Present,' Kervan International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 22, 2018, pp. 291-294.

Amanda Gerke, ‘Discursive Boundaries: Code-Switching as Representative of Gibraltarian Identity Construction in M. G. Sanchez's Rock Black,’ Miscelánea 57, 2018 pp. 35-57.

Ina Habermann, 'British-European Entanglements: M.G. Sanchez's The Escape Artist and the Case of Gibraltar,' Journal for Literary and Intermedial Crossings 2, 2018, pp. b1-20.

Ina Habermann, 'Gibraltarian Hauntologies: Spectres of Colonialism in the Fiction of M. G. Sanchez', Open Library of Humanities, 6(1), 2020, p.19.

Ana Maria Manzanas Calvo, 'The Line and the Limit of Britishness: The Construction of Gibraltarian Identity in M. G. Sanchez’s Writing,’ ES Review 38, 2017, pp. 27-45.

Robert Patrick Newcomb, 'Review of Border Control and Other Autobiographical Pieces', International Journal of Iberian Studies, 33, 1, 1 2020, pp. 107-108.

Elena Seoane, 'Telling the true Gibraltarian Story: an interview with Gibraltarian writer M. G. Sanchez,' Alicante Journal of English Studies 29, 2016, pp. 251-258

John A. Stotesbury, 'Mediterranean Gothic: M. G. Sanchez’s Gibraltar Fiction in its Context,’ British and American Studies 21, 2016, pp. 156-172.

References
  1. Stotesbury, John (2016). "Mediterranean Gothic: M.G. Sanchez's Gibraltar Fiction in its Contexts". British and American Studies. 22: 101–110.
  2. Adami, Esterino (2015). "Review of Solitude House" (PDF). Il Tolomeo. 17: 185–187.
  3. Manzanas Calvo, Ana María (2017). "The Line and the Limit of Britishness: The Construction of Gibraltarian Identity in M. G. Sanchez's Writing". ES Review. 38: 27–45.
  4. Gerke, Amanda Ellen (2018-12-16). "Discursive Boundaries: Code-Switching as Representative of Gibraltarian Identity Construction in M.G. Sanchez' Rock Black". Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies. 57 (0). ISSN 1137-6368.
  5. Gabay, Rebecca (2018). "M. G. Sanchez's Bombay Journal. Redressing the Past from the Colonial Present". Kervan International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies. 22: 291–294.
  6. Newcomb, Robert Patrick (2020-03-01). "Border Control and Other Autobiographical Pieces, M. G. Sanchez (2019)". www.ingentaconnect.com. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
  7. Habermann, Ina (2020-06-03). "Gibraltarian Hauntologies: Spectres of Colonialism in the Fiction of M. G. Sanchez". Open Library of Humanities. 6 (1): 19. doi:10.16995/olh.503. ISSN 2056-6700.
  8. Trinchero, Cristina (2013). "La Rocca di Babele: narrazioni e trasformazioni linguistiche in M. G. Sanchez". Ritorno A Babele: Esercizi Di Globalizzazione. Neos Ediozini. pp. 71–81. ISBN 9788866080978.
  9. Albertazzi, Silvia (2018). "A Passage to Gibraltar: Alterity and Representation in M. G. Sanchez". (Post)Colonial Passages Incursions and Excursions across the Literatures and Cultures in English. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 204–216. ISBN 978-1-5275-0630-5.
  10. Team, YGTV. "May 22 - Sanchez Promotes Gibraltarian Writing At University Of Salamanca". Your Gibraltar TV. Retrieved 2019-05-29.
  11. "'Gibraltarian Author M. G. Sanchez At The University Of Turin'". Your Gibraltar TV. 15 December 2016.
  12. Balears, Universitat de les Illes. "Language and identity in Gibraltar - Gibraltar - 16-17 - Formació - Cultura - Servei d'Activitats Culturals - Serveis i oficines de la UIB - Estructura - Coneix la UIB - Universitat de les Illes Balears". sac.uib.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 2017-05-01.
  13. "LVTC - Language Variation and Textual Categorisation". view0.webs.uvigo.es. Retrieved 2017-05-08.
  14. "Gibraltarian Author Delivers Lecture About The Gibraltar Border At The University Of Portsmouth". Your Gibraltar TV. 26 June 2017.
  15. "Talking the language of borders at the University of Strasbourg | Gibraltar Chronicle". Retrieved 2018-10-11.
  16. Team, YGTV. "Oct 25 - Local Writer M. G. Sanchez Delivers 'Tricontinental' Lecture At The University Of Barcelona". Your Gibraltar TV. Retrieved 2018-10-25.
  17. Team, YGTV. "Nov 05 - M.G. Sanchez Discusses Gibraltar And Brexit At The University Of Northumbria". Your Gibraltar TV. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
  18. APA (2019-03-15). "Próximos seminários do GI Identidades, Culturas e Vulnerabilidades (ICS-ULisboa) com o tema "Arguing borders in the Mediterranean: a seminar in two parts"". Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (APA) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  19. "Writing Gibraltar: A personal history | University of Gibraltar". www.unigib.edu.gi. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
  20. "Mark Sanchez Speaks At British Association For Modernist Studies Conference". Your Gibraltar TV (YGTV). Retrieved 2019-06-24.
  21. "'Gibraltarian Author M. G. Sanchez Invited To Speak At The University Of Basel'". Your Gibraltar TV. 13 September 2016.
  22. "Kompetenzzentrum Kulturelle Topographien: M. G. Sanchez on Brexit". kultop.unibas.ch. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
  23. "Representing Gibraltarianness – Gibraltar Chronicle". chronicle.gi. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  24. "Gibraltar Literary Festival". www.gibraltarliteraryfestival.com. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
  25. Sanchez, M. G. (February 2015). "'If you don't write your own stories, others will...'". New Statesman.
  26. Adams, Phillip (5 March 2015). "Life on the Rock of Gibraltar". Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
  27. "Gibraltar Writer Features In BBC Radio Programme". Your Gibraltar TV. Retrieved 2017-05-01.
  28. "Antena Caro - Mark G. Sánchez, escriptor gibraltareny - 26-04-13". antenacaro.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 2017-05-01.
  29. Sanchez, M. G. (2004). Anti-Spanish sentiment in English literary and political writing, 1553-1603 (PDF) (PhD thesis ed.). Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.
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