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This article aims to demonstrate how La muerte feliz de William Carlos Williams proposes a rewriting of the maternal as a way of recreating the archipelagic identity that rubs against various traditions. Friction is understood as that which incorporates fiction and non-fiction in a natural way, while at the same time blurring those limits that the publishing market has tried to put before it in order to clearly catalog its products. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article analyzes the change and adaptation process of miners who became agricultural settlers on the coast of Hermosillo. All of them had been unemployed because of the closure of the copper mine in Pilares, Sonora, in 1949. The methodological perspective applied instruments of social and cultural history with concepts of memory studies. It is possible to identify a fractured identity through the broken projections for the future, forcing settlers to re-elaborate their life stories. The study involved work with orality, which resulted in some limitations that had to be solved with contrast of documentary and historiographic sources. The visibility of a community with a strong presence in the social imagination of Sonora defined the originality of the study, concluding further that there is a pilgrim cultural identity that was formed outside the mining space but with symbolic elements of it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The civilization / barbarism dichotomy, from Sarmiento guiding the national construction process, served as frontiers as one of the founding pieces in the construction of subaltern and excluded national identities. This produced groups that were habitually invisible or, when not, reviled by the national literature subsidiary of the discourse of power. Returning to these categories, frontier and rewriting (Garramuño, 1997), in this article we will try to visualize the deconstructive process carried out by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara's novel, The Adventures of China Iron (2017), to permeabilize, erode and tear down those geographical and imaginary lines and often arbitrary, which we call borders. We start from the hypothesis that this rewriting exercise, in the mere fact of breaking down geographical boundaries, enables, in turn, the dismantling of all social conventions that operate as hierarchical segregators of otherness, for example, names or races, social or cultural backgrounds and, more than anything, gender and sexual orientation. In this way, we can ask ourselves if the blurring of the border, which shielded the dystopian world of the Indian from that of the Christians in Martín Fierro, does not facilitate the entrance to utopia in the rewriting of Cabezón Cámara. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper contributes to the concretization of the 'maritime border' concept, analysing the perceptions of European sailors towards the African Atlantic during the 15th century. The title refers to the dialectic relationship between the 'imaginary' of the explorers and the novelties they must have faced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study examines the representation of the city of Tijuana in the novel Al otro lado by Mexican writer Heriberto Yépez. My discussion centers on how this literary work confronts and interrogates the two most popular myths about this city's sociocultural make-up: Tijuana as violent and perverted, a capital of sin; and Tijuana as the height of globalized cultural hybridity. The second of these myths, which stems from the city's location and rapid changing demographics, has led critics to ascribe to Tijuana the dissolution of long-standing notions of class, nation, and identity. Yépez's novel allows us to understand that such ideas do and do not define Tijuana. The image of this city portrayed in Al otro lado is that of a complex place that both establishes ties with and departs from hegemonic descriptive modalities therein recovering and exposing a diverse, unstable, and conflictive reality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to study and analyze the border region of Melilla (Spain) - Nador (Morocco) highlighting the conflict of cross-border mobility and emphasizing peaceful relations between individuals and/or citizens. However, the definition of border diluted from neighboring areas when we approach the centers of power. This border is a multicultural geological fault defined both a colonial border between Spain and Morocco in economic terms between Europe and Africa, a geopolitical division between the north and south of the Mediterranean and, primarily, a religious conflict between Christianity and Islam. The border region between Melilla-Nador has become a multicultural diversity and variability space, as a rehearsal interdisciplinary space. Concluding that the transboundary speech of people who practice the movement between both sides and examining narratives define a population without fear of exchange where national identity is giving way to the border and/or trans border identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article we explore frontierization practices, understood as the ways in which social groups mark an inside and an outside, in correlation with the differentiation we / others. We seek to identify how these practices operate in the dialectics State - ethnic minorities, which are core elements in the historic architecture of Latin American societies. Although as social constructs these boundaries emerge as sharp dividing lines, we address them as porous membranes selectively volatile, open to reconnections. In order to suggest some relevant and necessary analytical displacements that the current period fosters, we divided the text into four overlapping but distinguishable steps. We address first the dis / continuities in the border conceptualization in social thought. Then we enunciate how political boundaries influence the frontierization practices resulting from difference marking and recognition policies. After that, we examine what we understand as a pluralization of spatial, social and categorical boundaries. Finally, we address social and disciplinary challenges unleashed by the epistemic boundaries recognition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this brief article we refer two important Chicano writers that, in his works, talk about the borders, and linked cities of Juárez and El Paso, Tx. In the first of them, Juárez is not only one of steps forced for would commit in the United States, door privileged of diáspora that it caused by the movement of Mexican Revolution, and where it will put into play the resentment and hatred towards the foreigner, besides in becoming the stage where the fights of the armed movement will be contemplated, as if a live film it was, from the "otro lado", but it will be the scene of the birth of the cultural personage of "pachuco", which will be understood as one of the first counterculture forms of identity resistance of the Mexico-Americans in the years 1940s. In the second case, the border city is what was during many years, a place which the neighbors of the north went to look for the lightening at night, the deliriums of its prohibited enjoyments, as well as, and is the case, of its melancholic personal tribulations. These glances have been recorded in works of Jose Antonio Villarreal and Oscar Zeta Acosta, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The desert territory and the culture of the inhabitants of the border zone that occupies Mexicali and its agricultural valley have been transformed and in this way they have generated several cultural characteristics that have contributed to the construction of a regional identity with anchorages in the arid geography. Indeed, the central objective of this article is to think the relation established between desert and culture, from a theoretical-conceptual perspective and to contribute, in this way, to the construction of a general frame that can be useful for other empiricist researches about the cultural identity in Mexicali and its agricultural valley. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The increasing permeability of the Argentine-Paraguayan border in Posadas-Encarnación - due to territorial policies like the construction of the international bridge San Roque Gonzalez of Santa Cruz - has modified some old cross-border dynamics and granted visibility to some traditionally cross-border actors like, for example, the Paraguayan women called "paseras". This article focuses on one of the symbolic dimensions of the international border: its influence in the construction of social identities. Our objective is to approach the identity construction process of this social actor called "pasera", by analyzing historical documents and the results of a fieldwork carried out in May, 2009. The dominant methodology is the qualitative one and the applied techniques are the multi-situated interviews done to the Paraguayan "paseras". We will analyze, firstly, the role that these women have historically played in Posadas, and the social representations built upon them, as well as their own way of constructing identity by working on the border. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The economic and territorial transformations which have occurred in the context of the process of integration of Mercosur have had a particular impact on border areas, where the populations of member countries come face-to-face. The inauguration of a bridge, with consequent customs and legal reforms, has changed the way of life on the Argentinean-Paraguayan border. The bridge that unites the Argentine city of Posadas with its Paraguayan neighbor of Encarnación has been, since 1992, the scene of transnational social demonstrations involving both the Paraguayan and Argentinean populations. The objective of the present article is to analyze the social representations and identity claims generated on the Argentinean-Paraguayan border through the study of the written press of both countries. We would like to place particular emphasis on the operational symbolic borders generated by each society, as well as on the notions of identity, not only in relation to the "other", but also to the central power, that is, the state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In "The Andes mountain range: a wall or a gateway? Views of one's neighbors across space", we have considered how the changes in perception of a geographical feature, such as the Andes mountain range from Colonial times to the present day, shed light on the ways we see the world. As a matter of fact, generalizations on particular features of various social identities can be drawn on the social groups' relationship with geographical space. Such a relationship has been tackled by anthropology as well as other fields of study which have dealt with the interplay between identity and geographical space. Our interest is to focus on the types of significance assigned to the Andes mountain range on both sides of it in certain time periods. The significance of the range as a wall is one of several views circulating in literary and non-literary writing. The relevance of this view can be best appreciated in terms of international relations between Argentina and Chile as bordering countries. However, other types of state-space representation relationships have been put forth which have promoted closer integration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As a result of all the processes of space-time redefinition occurred during the course of the XX century, the concept of place acquires a special meaning in relation to issues of personal and group identity construction. This redefinition of the term 'place' is accompanied by new evaluations of other related terms such as 'displacement' and 'border' that as a whole constitute a central element within post-colonial discourse and literature. This idea of place can be traced in the works of many Chicano writers in the USA and that is the reason why I will attempt an analysis of the previously mentioned concepts and of the ways in which they contribute to identity construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]