Journal | Rassegna iberistica
Journal issue | 40 | 108 | 2017
Research Article | The Inversion of the Relationship between of the ‘I’ and the ‘other’

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

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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Submitted: Feb. 6, 2017 | Accepted: March 23, 2017 | Published: Dec. 13, 2017 | Language: es

Keywords Maribel Lacave Western Sahara María Jesús Alvarado Otherness Poetry Identity

Copyright © 2017 Giulia Maltese. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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