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dc.title	The Inversion of the Relationship between of the ‘I’ and the ‘other’. The Identity in the ‘nostalgic otherness’ of the Isla Truk by María Jesús Alvarado and Maribel Lacave
dc.contributor.author	Maltese Giulia
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/2017/108/la-inversion-de-la-relacion-del-yo-con-el-otro/
dc.description.abstract	The link between Western Sahara and Spain is framed in a contradictory logic in which the boundary between (Spanish) ‘identity’ and (Sahrawi) ‘alterity’ gradually diffuses, as we go back in time and move towards the (literary) space of the former Province no. 53. In their book of poems, Isla Truk (2011), the Canarian authors María Jesús Alvarado and Maribel Lacave – whose childhood is reciprocally linked to Western Sahara – focus on the concepts of ‘identity’ and ‘otherness’ from a dual perspective: both contemporary and far back in time, on their journey towards the utopia of childhood. After a brief historical account, we enter into the subject by highlighting those linguistic and semantic patterns which offer the reader – a ‘visionary reader’ – the key to interpreting the double experience of what we dare to define ‘identity in the Saharawi otherness’.
dc.relation.ispartof	Rassegna iberistica
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 40 \| Issue 108 \| December 2017
dc.issued	2017-12-13
dc.dateAccepted	2017-03-23
dc.dateSubmitted	2017-02-06
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/Ri-40-108-17-6
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Identity
dc.subject	Identity
dc.subject	Maribel Lacave
dc.subject	Maribel Lacave
dc.subject	María Jesús Alvarado
dc.subject	María Jesús Alvarado
dc.subject	Otherness
dc.subject	Otherness
dc.subject	Poetry
dc.subject	Poetry
dc.subject	Western Sahara
dc.subject	Western Sahara

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The Inversion of the Relationship between of the ‘I’ and the ‘other’

The Identity in the ‘nostalgic otherness’ of the Isla Truk by María Jesús Alvarado and Maribel Lacave

Giulia Maltese Università di Bologna, Italia

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abstract

The link between Western Sahara and Spain is framed in a contradictory logic in which the boundary between (Spanish) ‘identity’ and (Sahrawi) ‘alterity’ gradually diffuses, as we go back in time and move towards the (literary) space of the former Province no. 53. In their book of poems, Isla Truk (2011), the Canarian authors María Jesús Alvarado and Maribel Lacave – whose childhood is reciprocally linked to Western Sahara – focus on the concepts of ‘identity’ and ‘otherness’ from a dual perspective: both contemporary and far back in time, on their journey towards the utopia of childhood. After a brief historical account, we enter into the subject by highlighting those linguistic and semantic patterns which offer the reader – a ‘visionary reader’ – the key to interpreting the double experience of what we dare to define ‘identity in the Saharawi otherness’.

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Dec. 13, 2017

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March 23, 2017

Submitted

Feb. 6, 2017

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Keywords: Otherness • Western Sahara • Maribel Lacave • Poetry • Identity • María Jesús Alvarado

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