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T1 El amor transnacional como arma contra el sistema fronterizo estatal en “La espesura de la noche”, de César Mba A. Abogo y “Una camarera (expatriada a cualquier lugar del mundo)” de Lien Carrazana
A1 Fuentes Antrás, Francisco
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 Literatura
AB The short stories “En la espesura de la noche” (2010) and “Una camarera (expatriada a cualquier lugar del mundo)” (2011) depict the feeling of imprisonment that first-person narrators experience within the rigid borders of Equatorial Guinea and Cuba, respectively, and how they overcome this territorial oppression by loving a woman who dwells beyond the national borders they are unable to trespass. Bearing in mind that the love towards nation-states constitutes a way of perpetuating a nationalist ideology and the reinforcement of national borders over individual free agency (Morrison et al., 2021: 514), this article examines how, in both narratives, the exaltation of a transnational love over that of the nation challenges these nation-state’s “unique discourse,” based on the binary border thinking of inside/outside and us/them, in favor of individual agency and a more transnational way of understanding the world.
SN 1989-7383
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/55484
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/55484
LA eng
NO Castilla. Estudios de Literatura; Núm. 13 (2022) pags. 165-185
DS UVaDOC
RD 20-may-2024