A small Guinean family: a discursive approach of the historical continuity in a discourse for the independence

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to analyze the official speech given by a Spanish authority, representative of the dictator Francisco Franco, in October 12 of 1968, which was related to the independency of the Equatorial Guinea. This pronouncement is part of major research proposed to explicit the notion of Hispanicity. October the 12th, day of the arrival of Christopher Colombus in America, also known as the “discovery” of America, was chosen by Guinean authorities of the time to celebrate the independency of the new African nation. An additional peculiarity of the Equatorial Guinea is its uniqueness as the only African nation to have Spanish as the main official language. Guided by the dialogical bakthinian vision, we adopt as our theoretical standpoint the Discourse Analysis (DA), which takes into account enunciative studies. We observe a net of identity affiliations that is interweaved between the Mother Nation and the African ex-colony. The subjective instance that is manifested in an exaltation tone is in concordance with a historical continuism with respect to the Spanish language and the moral values steeped by the Christian religion. This is mostly observed in the rewriting of the process of Spanish colonization.