De viagens e travessias: escritura sem morada fixa e autoria feminina contemporânea

Abstract

Abstract: To think about contemporary American literature necessarily implies reflecting on the poignant production identified with the different migrant communities that make up the country. In this context, countless female voices have dedicated themselves to narrating the diasporic experience not in their mother tongues, but in an English learned as a second language. The present work aims to draw bridges between narratives with these characteristics, adopting both geographic and linguistic displacement as an articulating element. To this end, the present article aims to work  with short stories by two contemporary writers of Caribbean origin: Achy Obejas and Edwidge Danticat. Based on Otmar Ette's notions of translocality, translingualism and transculturality, I intend to explore how literature produced by women within the Caribbean diaspora also adds the gender factor to this dynamic of complex transits performed by literature without a fixed abode.