Conflicting Displacements. Mobilities and Border Crossing in Recent Fiction

NADIA DER-OHANNESIAN

Argus-a

Editorial Argus-a

Lugar: California; Año: 2017

1853-9904

bstractThe works explored here, Jamaica Kincaid´s novel Lucy (2002) and the stories ?The Book of Miracles? and ?Night Talkers? from Edwidge Danticat´s The Dew Breaker (2005) reflect a search for alternative spaces from which to narrate the specificity of feminine experience of displacement and border inhabiting. In the works object of analysis I consider two phenomena that influence each other: mobility and the configuration of borders. On the one hand I contend that mobility entails relations of power and political disputes, and produces discourses that determine meanings. These power relations and meaning determine and are determined by gender, especially in the pair mobility (coded masculine), stasis (coded feminine). On the other hand, as a consequence of mobility, borders, as cultural constructs, are necessarily crossed, resisted and redrawn, producing changes and instability in world and identity perceptions.