Foreignness as Extimacy

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dc.identifier	ECF_article_873
dc.title	Foreignness as Extimacy. Más al sur by Paloma Vidal
dc.contributor.author	Seifert Marcos
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	es
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/rassegna-iberistica/2014/102/la-extranjeria-como-extimidad/
dc.description.abstract	In the stories that comprise Paloma Vidal’s book Más al sur (2011) we find a variety of characters in transit who speculate about their status as foreigners. Their foreignness is not presented only as an identity’s destabilization, but also it is proposed as a way of inadequacy respect to memory and inheritance. This foreingnness allows us to think a space that combines both alienation and belonging in cultural, linguistic and family dimensions. The term extimacy is relevant to understand this position because it refers to an intimacy that has a quality of exteriority.
dc.relation.ispartof	Rassegna iberistica
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 37 \| Issue 102 \| December 2014
dc.issued	2014-12-03
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2037-6588
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2037-6588/30p
dc.peer-review	yes

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Más al sur by Paloma Vidal

Marcos Seifert Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

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In the stories that comprise Paloma Vidal’s book Más al sur (2011) we find a variety of characters in transit who speculate about their status as foreigners. Their foreignness is not presented only as an identity’s destabilization, but also it is proposed as a way of inadequacy respect to memory and inheritance. This foreingnness allows us to think a space that combines both alienation and belonging in cultural, linguistic and family dimensions. The term extimacy is relevant to understand this position because it refers to an intimacy that has a quality of exteriority.

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